LaRue County Middle School

As a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Hodgenville, Kentucky, LaRue County Middle School hosts 522 students from grades 6 through 8, part of LaRue County.

Within LaRue County, which oversees 6 schools and 2,448 students, LaRue County Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LaRue County Middle School records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LaRue County Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.4%; this one delivers 47.6%.

Across the wider county, Larue County reports that median household income runs about $67,067, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Larue County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,448 students), LaRue County Middle School is one campus in the mix.

LaRue County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LaRue County Middle School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

LaRue County Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 6%: 554 students in 2018 compared to 522 in 2025.

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