Carr Creek Elementary School
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Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedWhat this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Kentucky's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Carr Creek Elementary School
Carr Creek Elementary School is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Littcarr, Kentucky, operated by Knott County, hosting 369 students in grades K through 8.
Carr Creek Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Knott County, a district that works with 2,048 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Carr Creek Elementary School logs that nearly all students (96%) are White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Carr Creek Elementary School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Carr Creek Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Carr Creek Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Kentucky schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 37.7%; actual is 54.3%, +16.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Zooming out to the county, Knott County reports that the typical household earns roughly $41,761 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Knott County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,048 students), of which Carr Creek Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Knott County Central High School, around 5.7 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carr Creek Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.7%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carr Creek Elementary School has climbed 3%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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