Estes Elementary School

Located at 1675 Leitchfield Rd, in Owensboro, Kentucky, Estes Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that works with 492 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Owensboro Independent.

Owensboro Independent runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,035 students. Estes Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Estes Elementary School logs that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 12% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Estes Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Estes Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Daviess County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, Estes Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -1.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Daviess County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,214 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Daviess County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students), of which Estes Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Highland Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Estes Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

Estes Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Estes Elementary School has increased 5%, going from 470 students in 2018 to 492 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 55% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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