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Estill Springs Elementary
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KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedWhat this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Estill Springs Elementary
Estill Springs Elementary is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Irvine, Kentucky, one of the schools within Estill County, hosting 475 students in grades K through 5.
Across the 6 schools in Estill County (2,210 students total), Estill Springs Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Estill Springs Elementary reports that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Estill County as a whole.
On the resource side, Estill Springs Elementary lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Estill Springs Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.1%; this one delivers 39.1%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Estill County indicate median household earnings sit near $46,051, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Estill County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,210 students), Estill Springs Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Estill County Success Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Estill Springs Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.
Estill Springs Elementary operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Estill Springs Elementary's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 475).
On allk12, the feed for Estill Springs Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Estill County at a glance
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