Girdler Elementary School

Girdler Elementary School operates as a cozy K-5 school in Girdler, Kentucky, operated by Knox County. Current enrollment sits at 267 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 37% leaner than typical.

Girdler Elementary School is one of 14 schools operated by Knox County, a district that enrolls 3,738 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Girdler Elementary School records that nearly all students (97%) are White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Girdler Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Knox County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Girdler Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Knox County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $32,527 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 33%. In all, Knox County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,276 students), of which Girdler Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Knox Appalachian School, roughly 4.8 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Girdler Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

Girdler Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Girdler Elementary School has declined 29%, going from 374 students in 2018 to 267 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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