Cravens Elementary School

Cravens Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary school in Owensboro, Kentucky, overseen by Owensboro Independent. Current enrollment sits at 396 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Owensboro Independent, which oversees 10 schools and 5,035 students, Cravens Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Cravens Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 18% Black, 18% Hispanic, 15% multiracial. By comparison, Daviess County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Cravens Elementary School shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Cravens Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Daviess County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cravens Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Around the school, Daviess County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,214 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Cravens Elementary School is one of 37 public schools in Daviess County (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students).

Nearest neighbor: Foust Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cravens Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cravens Elementary School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 44.2%.

Cravens Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 44%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 396 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 46% across the same window.

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