Grant County High School

Grant County High School, a sizable senior high in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, overseen by Grant County, works with 1,016 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 82% bigger than the state mean of about 558.

Grant County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,216 students. Grant County High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Grant County High School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Grant County High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Grant County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Grant County High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the broader community, Grant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,178 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Grant County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,075 students), Grant County High School is one campus in the mix.

Dry Ridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grant County High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.1%.

Grant County High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grant County High School has declined 5%, going from 1,072 students in 2018 to 1,016 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.