Heath Elementary School

Set in West Paducah, Kentucky, Heath Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school, part of McCracken County. It serves 498 students across grades pre-K through 5.

McCracken County runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,780 students. Heath Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Heath Elementary School records that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heath Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.6%; Heath Elementary School posts 62.6%, +17.0 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for McCracken County indicate median household income runs about $64,373, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McCracken County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,883 students), of which Heath Elementary School is one.

Heath Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Heath Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Heath Elementary School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 56.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 17%: 424 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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