Fulton County Elementary

Set in Hickman, Kentucky, Fulton County Elementary is a tight-knit primary school, one of the schools within Fulton County. It works with 314 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 421.

Fulton County comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 611 students; Fulton County Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Fulton County Elementary logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Fulton County Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Fulton County Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of -9.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Fulton County shows median household income runs about $38,217, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Fulton County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 904 students), of which Fulton County Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fulton County Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Fulton County Elementary. On composite proficiency, Fulton County Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 30%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for Fulton County Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.