Jennings Creek Elementary

Jennings Creek Elementary is an expansive elementary school in Bowling Green, Kentucky, run under Warren County. The school teaches 852 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 102% above typical.

Warren County comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 18,559 students; Jennings Creek Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Jennings Creek Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 20% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Warren County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Warren County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, Jennings Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Warren County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,794 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Warren County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,324 students), of which Jennings Creek Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Henry F. Moss Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jennings Creek Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 31.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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