F T Burns Middle School

Located at 4610 Goetz Drive, in Owensboro, Kentucky, F T Burns Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack middle school that educates 757 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Daviess County. That puts it 36% larger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Daviess County comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 10,948 students; F T Burns Middle School is among them.

Demographically, F T Burns Middle School records that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, F T Burns Middle School reports 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at F T Burns Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, F T Burns Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.1%; this one delivers 43.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Daviess County) shows that 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%. F T Burns Middle School is one of 37 public schools in Daviess County (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students).

F T Burns Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, F T Burns Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at F T Burns Middle School has decreased 12%, going from 862 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 77% to 64%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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