Foley Middle School

Foley Middle School is one of the close-knit middle-grades schools in Berea, Kentucky, overseen by Madison County, with 429 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Foley Middle School sits 23% below that benchmark.

Madison County runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 11,132 students. Foley Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Foley Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest looks like 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Foley Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household income runs about $63,351, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Foley Middle School is one of 27 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 12,103 students).

Madison Southern High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Foley Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.3%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foley Middle School has decreased 8%, going from 468 students in 2018 to 429 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.