Crab Orchard Elementary School

Located at 383 Lancaster St, in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, Crab Orchard Elementary School is an intimate K-5 school that hosts 266 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Lincoln County. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Lincoln County runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,255 students. Crab Orchard Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Crab Orchard Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lincoln County (around 75%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Crab Orchard Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lincoln County) records that median household income runs about $52,440, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Crab Orchard Elementary School is one of 8 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 3,240 students).

Brodhead Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crab Orchard Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Crab Orchard Elementary School's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 282 (now 266). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.