Jessie M Clark Middle School

Jessie M Clark Middle School is a big 6-8 campus in Lexington, Kentucky, run under Fayette County. The school teaches 1,002 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Jessie M Clark Middle School sits 80% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Fayette County, which oversees 73 schools and 42,138 students, Jessie M Clark Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Jessie M Clark Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Jessie M Clark Middle School has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Fayette County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Jessie M Clark Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the broader community, Fayette County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,479 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Fayette County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), Jessie M Clark Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Stonewall Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jessie M Clark Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 1,061 students in 2018 compared to 1,002 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.