Calloway County High School

Set in Murray, Kentucky, Calloway County High School is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school, overseen by Calloway County. It educates 824 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Calloway County High School sits 48% bigger than that benchmark.

Calloway County runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,020 students. Calloway County High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Calloway County High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at Calloway County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Calloway County High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.0%.

Across the wider county, Calloway County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,706 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Calloway County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,966 students), Calloway County High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Calloway County Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Calloway County High School. On composite proficiency, Calloway County High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Calloway County High School has fell 6%, going from 879 students in 2018 to 824 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 90% to 84%.

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