Caverna Elementary School

Caverna Elementary School is one of the close-knit elementary schools in Cave City, Kentucky, one of the schools within Caverna Independent, with 330 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% smaller than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Caverna Independent comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 654 students; Caverna Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Caverna Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 11% multiracial, 8% Black, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Caverna Elementary School reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Barren County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, Caverna Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.8%; Caverna Elementary School posts 20.7%, -16.1 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Barren County put the typical household earns roughly $50,628 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Caverna Elementary School is one of 21 public schools in Barren County (combined enrollment of about 7,749 students).

Nearest neighbor: Caverna Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Caverna Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

Caverna Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Caverna Elementary School's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 330).

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