Lemons Mill Elementary School

Lemons Mill Elementary School is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Georgetown, Kentucky, one of the schools within Scott County, with 540 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 28% bigger than typical.

Scott County comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 9,830 students; Lemons Mill Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Lemons Mill Elementary School records that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Lemons Mill Elementary School reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Scott County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lemons Mill Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.7%; Lemons Mill Elementary School posts 29.6%, -20.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, Scott County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,158, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Lemons Mill Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 9,863 students).

The closest other public school is Southern Elementary School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lemons Mill Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Lemons Mill Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

Lemons Mill Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 25%: 719 students in 2018 compared to 540 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.