Donald E. Cline Elementary School

Set in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Donald E. Cline Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus, part of Campbell County. It works with 398 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Campbell County runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,166 students. Donald E. Cline Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Donald E. Cline Elementary School shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 91% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Donald E. Cline Elementary School shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Donald E. Cline Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Campbell County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Donald E. Cline Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 65.4%, a residual of +12.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Campbell County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $77,567 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Campbell County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,168 students), Donald E. Cline Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crossroads Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. 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), Donald E. Cline Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 4%: 383 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Donald E. Cline Elementary School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.