Kimper Elementary School

As a rural-scale elementary school in Kimper, Kentucky, Kimper Elementary School teaches 120 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Pike County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Kimper Elementary School sits 71% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Kimper Elementary School shows that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Pike County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Kimper Elementary School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pike County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Kimper Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.6%; this one delivers 42.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Pike County indicate median household earnings sit near $44,312, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Kimper Elementary School is one of 24 public schools in Pike County (combined enrollment of about 8,644 students).

Johns Creek Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Kimper Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Kimper Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 142 (now 120). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.