Corbin High School

Corbin High School is a moderately sized high school in Corbin, Kentucky, run under Corbin Independent. The school works with 820 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 47% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Within Corbin Independent, which oversees 9 schools and 3,038 students, Corbin High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Corbin High School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Whitley County as a whole.

On the resource side, Corbin High School reports 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Whitley County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Corbin High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.0%; this one delivers 57.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Whitley County indicate median household earnings sit near $44,615, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Whitley County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,324 students), of which Corbin High School is one.

Corbin Educational Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Corbin High School at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 68.0%.

Corbin High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Corbin High School's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 932 (now 820). Class-load math has fell: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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