Cumberland Trace Elementary

Cumberland Trace Elementary, a sizable elementary campus in Bowling Green, Kentucky, one of the schools within Warren County, works with 699 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 66% above the state mean of about 421.

Warren County runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 18,559 students. Cumberland Trace Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cumberland Trace Elementary reports that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cumberland Trace Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Cumberland Trace Elementary qualify 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), Cumberland Trace Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.0%; this one delivers 55.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Warren County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,794 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Warren County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,324 students), of which Cumberland Trace Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Briarwood Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cumberland Trace Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cumberland Trace Elementary has expanded 24%, going from 562 students in 2018 to 699 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 61% over that span.

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