Highland Elementary School

Located at 2909 Kentucky 54, in Owensboro, Kentucky, Highland Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school that serves 440 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Daviess County.

Daviess County runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 10,948 students. Highland Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Highland Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest looks like 11% Asian, 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Highland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Daviess County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Highland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 57.3%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Daviess County put median household earnings sit near $68,214, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Highland Elementary School is one of 37 public schools in Daviess County (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students).

Daviess County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.0%.

Highland Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Highland Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 588 (now 440). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 82% to 74%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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