Deer Park Elementary School

Deer Park Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Owensboro, Kentucky, run under Daviess County. The school educates 480 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Daviess County comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 10,948 students; Deer Park Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Deer Park Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 9% Asian, 9% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Deer Park Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Deer Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Daviess County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,214 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Deer Park Elementary School is one of 37 public schools in Daviess County (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students).

Nearest neighbor: College View Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Deer Park Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 610 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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