Laurel Elementary School

Set in Vanceburg, Kentucky, Laurel Elementary School is a minimally staffed elementary school, part of Lewis County. It instructs 70 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 83% below the state mean of about 421.

Within Lewis County, which oversees 6 schools and 1,942 students, Laurel Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Laurel Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (99%). That composition is broadly in line with Lewis County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lewis County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, Lewis County reports that median household earnings sit near $46,838, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Laurel Elementary School is one of 7 public schools in Lewis County (combined enrollment of about 1,942 students).

Carter City Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.1 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Laurel Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 88 (now 70). Class-load math has rose: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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