Flaherty Elementary School

As a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in Ekron, Kentucky, Flaherty Elementary School serves 299 students from grades 4 through 6, run under Meade County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Flaherty Elementary School sits 46% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Meade County, which oversees 9 schools and 4,921 students, Flaherty Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Flaherty Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest breaks down as 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at Flaherty Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Flaherty Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the broader community, Meade County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,355, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Meade County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,001 students), of which Flaherty Elementary School is one.

Flaherty Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Flaherty Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Flaherty Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 329 (now 299).

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