Dishman McGinnis Elementary School

Dishman McGinnis Elementary School, an average-sized K-5 school in Bowling Green, Kentucky, overseen by Bowling Green Independent, hosts 506 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Dishman McGinnis Elementary School sits 20% bigger than that benchmark.

Dishman McGinnis Elementary School is one of 10 schools operated by Bowling Green Independent, a district that serves 4,765 students overall.

On demographics, Dishman McGinnis Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 26% Black, 18% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at Dishman McGinnis Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Warren County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dishman McGinnis Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -11.4 points.

In the broader community, Warren County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,794 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Dishman McGinnis Elementary School is one.

Bowling Green Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dishman McGinnis Elementary School.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Dishman McGinnis Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 506). The White share of enrollment decreased from 30% to 18% over that span.

On allk12, members of the Dishman McGinnis Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.