Charles Russell Elementary School

Set in Ashland, Kentucky, Charles Russell Elementary School is an intimate elementary school, run under Ashland Independent. It hosts 202 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% below the state mean of about 421.

Ashland Independent comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,083 students; Charles Russell Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Charles Russell Elementary School records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Boyd County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Charles Russell Elementary School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at Charles Russell Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Charles Russell Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Boyd County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,118 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Charles Russell Elementary School is one of 25 public schools in Boyd County (combined enrollment of about 6,634 students).

The closest other public school is Ashland Alternative School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Charles Russell Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Charles Russell Elementary School's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 260 (now 202). Class-load math has loosened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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