Bush Elementary School

Bush Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus in London, Kentucky, operated by Laurel County. The school hosts 511 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% larger than the state mean of about 421.

Laurel County runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 8,676 students. Bush Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Bush Elementary School lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Bush Elementary School logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Bush Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 61% of students at Bush Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Bush Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 42.4%; this one delivers 70.7%, a residual of +28.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Laurel County shows median household income runs about $57,771, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Laurel County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,220 students), Bush Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Laurel Middle School, around 2.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bush Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bush Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 500 students in 2018 compared to 511 in 2025.

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