Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School

Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School, an average-sized elementary-level community in Danville, Kentucky, part of Danville Independent, works with 520 students, covering grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School is one of 6 schools operated by Danville Independent, a district that hosts 1,787 students overall.

On demographics, Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 18% multiracial, 16% Black, 15% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Boyle County's rate of about 57%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Boyle County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,159, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Boyle County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,810 students), Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sunrise Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

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