Buckhorn School

As a sizable multi-level school in Buckhorn, Kentucky, Buckhorn School teaches 320 students from grades K through 12, overseen by Perry County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 202 students each, so Buckhorn School sits 58% above that benchmark.

Buckhorn School is one of 9 schools operated by Perry County, a district that serves 3,416 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Buckhorn School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%). Compared to Perry County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Buckhorn School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Perry County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Buckhorn School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of +13.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Perry County put median household income runs about $42,181, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 25%. Across Perry County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,432 students), Buckhorn School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Highland-Turner Elementary School, roughly 9.5 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Buckhorn School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buckhorn School has ticked down 10%, going from 357 students in 2018 to 320 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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