Jesse Stuart Elementary School

Set in Madisonville, Kentucky, Jesse Stuart Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school, run under Hopkins County. It educates 486 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Hopkins County comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,265 students; Jesse Stuart Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Jesse Stuart Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder breaks down as 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 11% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hopkins County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jesse Stuart Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the broader community, Hopkins County reports that median household earnings sit near $56,815, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Jesse Stuart Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Hopkins County (combined enrollment of about 6,896 students).

James Madison Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jesse Stuart Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Jesse Stuart Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 532 (now 486). White enrollment moved from 71% to 61% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.