H W Wilkey Elementary School

Set in Leitchfield, Kentucky, H W Wilkey Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus, overseen by Grayson County. It educates 504 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Grayson County runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,030 students. H W Wilkey Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, H W Wilkey Elementary School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Grayson County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, H W Wilkey Elementary School shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting H W Wilkey Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Grayson County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, H W Wilkey Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.0%, the actual is 30.9%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Grayson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $50,757 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Grayson County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,030 students), of which H W Wilkey Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Grayson County Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around H W Wilkey Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), H W Wilkey Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 49.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 525 students in 2018 compared to 504 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the H W Wilkey Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.