East Jessamine High School

East Jessamine High School is a sizable high school in Nicholasville, Kentucky, one of the schools within Jessamine County. The school instructs 1,222 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 558 students per school, that is 119% bigger than typical.

Jessamine County comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 8,331 students; East Jessamine High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, East Jessamine High School logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Jessamine High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Jessamine County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,576, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jessamine County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,331 students), East Jessamine High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Red Oak Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts East Jessamine High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 44.9%.

East Jessamine High School operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Jessamine High School has rose 19%, going from 1,025 students in 2018 to 1,222 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 74% across the same window.

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