Johns Creek Elementary School

Set in Pikeville, Kentucky, Johns Creek Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, run under Pike County. It serves 616 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Johns Creek Elementary School sits 46% above that benchmark.

Within Pike County, which oversees 20 schools and 7,515 students, Johns Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Johns Creek Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%). Compared to Pike County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Johns Creek Elementary School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Johns Creek Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Johns Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pike County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johns Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 51.1%.

Around the school, Pike County reports that median household income runs about $44,312, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Johns Creek Elementary School is one of 24 public schools in Pike County (combined enrollment of about 8,644 students).

The closest other public school is Pike County Virtual Academy, roughly 4.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Johns Creek Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johns Creek Elementary School has shrank 17%, going from 745 students in 2018 to 616 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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