Holmes High School

Located at 25th and Madison Ave, in Covington, Kentucky, Holmes High School is a roomy 9-12 campus that enrolls 855 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Covington Independent. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Within Covington Independent, which oversees 10 schools and 3,557 students, Holmes High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Holmes High School shows that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 32% Hispanic, 22% Black, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Kenton County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Kenton County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Holmes High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kenton County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,548 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Kenton County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,225 students), Holmes High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Holmes Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Holmes High School. On composite proficiency, Holmes High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 807 students in 2018 compared to 855 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 32% across the same window.

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