Letcher Elementary & Middle School

Letcher Elementary & Middle School is a modestly sized elementary campus in Blackey, Kentucky, operated by Letcher County. The school caters to 322 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Letcher Elementary & Middle School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Letcher County (2,429 students total), Letcher Elementary & Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Letcher Elementary & Middle School reports that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Letcher Elementary & Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.8%; this one delivers 36.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Letcher County indicate median household income runs about $41,793, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Letcher County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,882 students), Letcher Elementary & Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Whitesburg Elementary School, roughly 5.9 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Letcher Elementary & Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.2%.

Letcher Elementary & Middle School operates from a countryside location.

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