CORBIN 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 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% 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 26 points, placing it in Kentucky's top 10%.
About CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary campus in Corbin, Kentucky, run under Corbin Independent. The school educates 384 students in grades 4 through 5.
Across the 9 schools in Corbin Independent (3,038 students total), CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 56% of students at CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Whitley County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.2%; CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 70.3%, +26.0 points above that line.
Across the wider county, Whitley County reports that the typical household earns roughly $44,615 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 21 public schools in Whitley County (combined enrollment of about 7,324 students).
The closest other public school is Corbin School of Innovation, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.6%.
CORBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.
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- Corbin Educational Center0.2 mi · 33
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- Corbin High School0.8 mi · 820
- Corbin Middle School0.9 mi · 675