Bryan Station Middle School

Set in Lexington, Kentucky, Bryan Station Middle School is an average-sized 6-8 campus, run under Fayette County. It enrolls 744 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 558 students per school, that is 33% above typical.

Bryan Station Middle School is one of 73 schools operated by Fayette County, a district that instructs 42,138 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Bryan Station Middle School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 34% White, 18% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Bryan Station Middle School logs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bryan Station Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Around the school, Fayette County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,479 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Bryan Station Middle School is one of 81 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bryan Station High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bryan Station Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bryan Station Middle School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 28.9%.

Bryan Station Middle School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 766 students in 2018 compared to 744 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 24% to 42%.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.