Eastside Elementary School

Eastside Elementary School is one of the moderately sized primary schools in Cynthiana, Kentucky, one of the schools within Harrison County, with 399 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Harrison County comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,982 students; Eastside Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Eastside Elementary School reports that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder is composed of 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Eastside Elementary School records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Eastside Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Eastside Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.3%; this one comes in at 30.3%, -15.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Harrison County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,442 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Eastside Elementary School is one of 8 public schools in Harrison County (combined enrollment of about 2,982 students).

Southside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Eastside Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Eastside Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eastside Elementary School has rose 9%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 399 in 2025.

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