LaGrange Elementary School

Located at 500 W Jefferson Street, in La Grange, Kentucky, LaGrange Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school that hosts 450 students (grades K through 5), operated by Oldham County.

Oldham County comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 12,038 students; LaGrange Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LaGrange Elementary School logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Oldham County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting LaGrange Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Oldham County's rate of about 23%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LaGrange Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.7%; this one delivers 45.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Oldham County put median household income runs about $122,497, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Oldham County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,038 students), LaGrange Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Buckner Alternative High School, around 3.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LaGrange Elementary School. On composite proficiency, LaGrange Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 456 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 71% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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