Kenneth D. King Middle School

Kenneth D. King Middle School is an intermediate school of reasonably sized scale in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, part of Mercer County, teacheing 581 students in grades 6 through 8.

Mercer County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,674 students. Kenneth D. King Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Kenneth D. King Middle School shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kenneth D. King Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Mercer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,824 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Mercer County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,199 students), of which Kenneth D. King Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mercer County Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Kenneth D. King Middle School. On composite proficiency, Kenneth D. King Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 602 students in 2018 compared to 581 in 2025.

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