Greenup County High School

Greenup County High School is one of the mid-tier four-year high schools in Greenup, Kentucky, one of the schools within Greenup County, with 807 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 45% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Greenup County High School is one of 7 schools operated by Greenup County, a district that educates 2,509 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Greenup County High School records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Greenup County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Greenup County High School lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Greenup County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Greenup County High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of -12.5 points.

In the broader community, Greenup County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,751 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Greenup County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,653 students), Greenup County High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Greysbranch Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Greenup County High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Greenup County High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Greenup County High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 795 (now 807). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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