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Enrollment
608
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADISON COUNTY·NCES 210372000946
Kingston Elementary School
2845 Battlefield Memorial HWY, Berea, KY 40403 · (859) 625-6091 · Madison County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL608 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of Kentucky public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
333 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 63%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
52.3%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
42.7%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kingston Elementary School
Kingston Elementary School's state test result (45.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston Elementary School this school | 608 | 54.8% | 45.7% |
| McBrayer Elementary School Morehead | 566 | 54.9% | 40.7% |
| Foster Heights Elementary School Bardstown | 588 | 56.5% | 35.2% |
| Taylorsville Elementary School Taylorsville | 661 | 52.6% | 40.1% |
| Hardinsburg Elementary School Hardinsburg | 501 | 56.3% | 42.3% |
| Heath Elementary School West Paducah | 498 | 52.4% | 62.6% |
Matched among Kentucky elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kingston Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #306 of 669 | #6 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #354 of 668 | #6 of 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #289 of 674 | #6 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 608 | #106 of 744 | #2 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #533 of 674 | #12 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.0% | #437 of 674 | #11 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.8% | #549 of 721 | #9 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.3% | #127 of 233 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
608
+34 (+6%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 530
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 608 | 37.3 | 16.3:1 | 55% (333) |
| 2023-24 | 609 | 38.3 | 15.9:1 | 57% (349) |
| 2022-23 | 618 | 39.3 | 15.7:1 | 50% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 41 | 14.0:1 | 56% (323) |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 37.8 | 15.1:1 | 60% (341) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 37 | 15.8:1 | 57% (334) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 34 | 16.3:1 | 58% (320) |
| 2000-01 | 459 | 21 | 21.9:1 | 57% (263) |
| 1990-91 | 530 | 32 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kingston Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (572 to 608); teachers down 1% (37.8 to 37.3).
About Kingston Elementary School
Kingston Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Berea, Kentucky. The school enrolls 608 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Kentucky) has about 421 students.
Madison County (20 schools, 11,132 students) runs Kingston Elementary School.
Kingston Elementary School's enrollment is 89% White. After that, the student body is 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. For comparison, Madison County is about 89% White. The school's diversity index is 21%, meaning two students picked at random have a 21% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 16.3:1 comes from the school's 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in Kentucky. The lunch program counts 55% of students at Kingston Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Madison County average 55%.
Measured against Kentucky public elementary schools, Kingston Elementary School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Kingston Elementary School is +1.0 points: 45.7% actual, 44.7% predicted.
Census estimates describe Madison County this way: the median household income is $63,351, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. In all, Madison County has 27 public schools and roughly 12,103 students.
Of nearby public schools, Farristown Middle School is the closest, at about 4.0 miles. In all, 3 other public schools sit within five miles of Kingston Elementary School. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Kingston Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Kingston Elementary School is coded as Rural: Distant in federal locale data.
2024-25 enrollment was 608, a 6% gain from 574 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 16.3 students per teacher, compared with 14.0 in 2020-21.
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Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
95,769
Census ACS
Median income
$63,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
12,103 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madison County
- Madison Central High SchoolHigh · 2,107 students
- Madison Southern High SchoolHigh · 1,224 students
- Kirksville Elementary SchoolElementary · 662 students
- Madison Middle SchoolMiddle · 586 students
- Clark Moores Middle SchoolMiddle · 558 students
- B. Michael Caudill Middle SchoolMiddle · 517 students
Other schools in Berea
- Madison Southern High SchoolHigh · 1,224 students
- Silver Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
- Shannon Johnson Elementary SchoolElementary · 473 students
- Farristown Middle SchoolMiddle · 463 students
- Berea Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Foley Middle SchoolMiddle · 429 students
Other Kingston Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 14 states are named Kingston Elementary. Kingston Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 15.
- Kingston ElementaryHesperia, CA · 808 students
- Kingston Elementary SchoolBenton, LA · 768 students
- Kingston ElementaryKingston, TN · 736 students
- Kingston Elementary SchoolKingston, OK · 601 students
- Kingston ElementaryKingston, MA · 523 students
Nearby schools
- Farristown Middle School4.0 mi · 463
- Silver Creek Elementary School4.3 mi · 490
- Shannon Johnson Elementary School4.8 mi · 473
- Foley Middle School5.0 mi · 429
- Madison Southern High School5.0 mi · 1,224
- Berea Community Elementary School5.7 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About Kingston Elementary SchoolHow large is Kingston Elementary School?
Kingston Elementary School enrolls approximately 608 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Kingston Elementary School serve?
Kingston Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Kingston Elementary School?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at Kingston Elementary School.
How diverse is Kingston Elementary School?
Kingston Elementary School reports a student body of 89% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Kingston Elementary School?
Kingston Elementary School is overseen by Madison County in Madison County.
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