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Glasscock Elementary School
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedWhat this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Glasscock Elementary School
Located at 773 E Main St, in Lebanon, Kentucky, Glasscock Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that enrolls 432 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Marion County.
Glasscock Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Marion County, a district that teaches 3,036 students overall.
Demographically, Glasscock Elementary School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Glasscock Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Glasscock Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Marion County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glasscock Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.6%.
Around the school, Marion County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,627, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Marion County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,036 students), Glasscock Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Marion County High School, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glasscock Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.
Glasscock Elementary School operates from a town-based location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glasscock Elementary School has declined 11%, going from 484 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.
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