Herald Whitaker Middle School

Located at 221 Hornet Dr, in Salyersville, Kentucky, Herald Whitaker Middle School is a cozy middle school that educates 260 students (grades 7 through 8), operated by Magoffin County. Compared to the state average of about 558 students per school, that is 53% below typical.

Magoffin County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,902 students; Herald Whitaker Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Herald Whitaker Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%); the rest comes out to 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Herald Whitaker Middle School records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Herald Whitaker Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Herald Whitaker Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Magoffin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $33,080 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 36% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Herald Whitaker Middle School is one of 5 public schools in Magoffin County (combined enrollment of about 1,902 students).

Salyersville Grade 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 Herald Whitaker Middle School. On composite proficiency, Herald Whitaker Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Herald Whitaker Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 48%: 497 students in 2018 compared to 260 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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