Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary

Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, part of Grant County, serves 387 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Grant County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,216 students. Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary logs that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest breaks down as 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.7%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Grant County) shows that median household earnings sit near $69,178, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grant County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,075 students), of which Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northern Ky Youth Dev Center, around 2.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 28%: 538 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 93% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.