Carlisle County Elementary School

Set in Bardwell, Kentucky, Carlisle County Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under Carlisle County. It serves 395 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Carlisle County runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 738 students. Carlisle County Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Carlisle County Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Carlisle County Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Carlisle County) reports that median household income runs about $62,439, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Carlisle County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 738 students), of which Carlisle County Elementary School is one.

Carlisle County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Carlisle County Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Carlisle County Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

Carlisle County Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carlisle County Elementary School has decreased 6%, going from 421 students in 2018 to 395 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 91% to 85% over that span.

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