Deep Springs Elementary School

Set in Lexington, Kentucky, Deep Springs Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus, operated by Fayette County. It enrolls 521 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% bigger than the state mean of about 421.

Across the 73 schools in Fayette County (42,138 students total), Deep Springs Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Deep Springs Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 29% Black, 28% White, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at Deep Springs Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fayette County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Deep Springs Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Fayette County put the typical household earns roughly $69,479 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Fayette County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), Deep Springs Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bryan Station Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Deep Springs Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Deep Springs Elementary School has contracted 4%, going from 540 students in 2018 to 521 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 19% to 35%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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