Leestown Middle School

Leestown Middle School is one of the sizable intermediate schools in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the schools within Fayette County, with 1,084 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 94% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Leestown Middle School is one of 73 schools operated by Fayette County, a district that educates 42,138 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Leestown Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 28% White, 27% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at Leestown Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Leestown Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Fayette County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,479, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Fayette County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), of which Leestown Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Meadowthorpe Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leestown Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Leestown Middle School at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 36.9%.

Leestown Middle School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Leestown Middle School's enrollment has climbed 25% since 2018, when it stood at 867 (now 1,084). White enrollment moved from 36% to 28% across the same window.

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