Helmwood Heights Elementary School

As a medium-sized primary school in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Helmwood Heights Elementary School hosts 461 students from grades 1 through 5, run under Elizabethtown Independent.

Across the 7 schools in Elizabethtown Independent (2,454 students total), Helmwood Heights Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Helmwood Heights Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 16% multiracial, 10% Black, 7% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Hardin County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Helmwood Heights Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Helmwood Heights Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hardin County put the typical household earns roughly $67,647 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Helmwood Heights Elementary School is one of 34 public schools in Hardin County (combined enrollment of about 17,037 students).

Hardin County Day Treatment Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Helmwood Heights Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Helmwood Heights Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 461).

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