Burning Springs Elementary

Burning Springs Elementary is a K-5 school of low-enrollment scale in Manchester, Kentucky, operated by Clay County, instructing 297 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Burning Springs Elementary sits 29% below that benchmark.

Burning Springs Elementary is one of 10 schools operated by Clay County, a district that caters to 2,928 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Burning Springs Elementary logs that nearly all students (97%) are White.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Burning Springs Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Burning Springs Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.3%; Burning Springs Elementary posts 77.7%, +42.4 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Clay County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $40,900 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 27% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clay County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,928 students), of which Burning Springs Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Clay County High School, around 6.6 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Burning Springs Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burning Springs Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 301 students in 2018 to 297 in 2025.

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