Enrollment
284
Middle
DISTRICT 741 · STATE 558
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAYETTE COUNTY·NCES 210186000370
Lexington Trad Magnet School
350 N Limestone St, Lexington, KY 40508 · (859) 381-3192 · Fayette County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL284 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Kentucky public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
222 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 104 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 87 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 93 | 33% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
31.3%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
28.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lexington Trad Magnet School
Lexington Trad Magnet School's state test result (27.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Trad Magnet School this school | 284 | 78.2% | 27.2% |
| Johnson Traditional Middle Louisville | 516 | 74.8% | 15.9% |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North Louisville | 470 | 78.3% | 15.0% |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South Louisville | 543 | 78.6% | 12.1% |
| Dr. J. Blaine Hudson Middle School Louisville | 615 | 89.6% | N/A |
| Conway Middle Louisville | 678 | 67.8% | 12.1% |
Matched among Kentucky middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lexington Trad Magnet School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Fayette County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.2% | #194 of 216 | #12 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #181 of 216 | #11 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #195 of 217 | #11 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 284 | #194 of 221 | #12 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #1 of 210 | #1 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.8% | #57 of 210 | #11 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.2% | #11 of 219 | #1 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -43.8% | #3 of 156 | #1 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
284
-55 (-16%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 571
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 10.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 284 | 33.3 | 8.5:1 | 78% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 32.8 | 9.1:1 | 78% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 296 | 34.9 | 8.5:1 | 81% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 339 | 34 | 10.0:1 | 88% (297) |
| 2017-18 | 505 | 39.3 | 12.8:1 | 75% (379) |
| 2015-16 | 538 | 37 | 14.5:1 | 55% (298) |
| 2010-11 | 755 | 52 | 14.5:1 | 48% (360) |
| 2000-01 | 843 | 51 | 16.5:1 | 16% (139) |
| 1990-91 | 571 | 36 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lexington Trad Magnet School.
Since 2017-18: students down 44% (505 to 284); teachers down 15% (39.3 to 33.3).
About Lexington Trad Magnet School
Lexington Trad Magnet School is a small middle school serving families in Lexington, Kentucky. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 284 students. By comparison, middle schools in Kentucky enroll about 558 students on average.
Fayette County (73 schools, 42,138 students) runs Lexington Trad Magnet School.
Federal enrollment data show Lexington Trad Magnet School is 65% Black. Next come 17% White, 10% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. The county population is about 15% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Lexington Trad Magnet School, there are about 8.5 students; the school has 33.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Kentucky is 15.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 222 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 78% of enrollment. Public schools in Fayette County average 50%.
Lexington Trad Magnet School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 16% of Kentucky public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Lexington Trad Magnet School, the prediction is 36.0% and the result is 27.2%.
Looking at the county, Fayette County, the median household earns about $69,479 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 48%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Counting Lexington Trad Magnet School, Fayette County has 81 public schools.
The closest school to Lexington Trad Magnet School is George Washington Carver STEM Academy, located about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Lexington Trad Magnet School's average proficiency of 27.2% compares with 41.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The NCES locale for Lexington Trad Magnet School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 16% across 4 years, from 339 in 2020-21 to 284 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.0:1 to 8.5:1.
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Fayette County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
323,725
Census ACS
Median income
$69,479
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
81
42,142 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Fayette County
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 2,370 students
- Bryan Station High SchoolHigh · 2,030 students
- Henry Clay High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar High SchoolHigh · 1,828 students
- Frederick Douglass High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Tates Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,723 students
Other schools in Lexington
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 2,370 students
- Bryan Station High SchoolHigh · 2,030 students
- Henry Clay High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar High SchoolHigh · 1,828 students
- Frederick Douglass High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Tates Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,723 students
Nearby schools
- George Washington Carver STEM Academy0.4 mi · 158
- Harrison Elementary School0.6 mi · 207
- William Wells Brown Elementary0.7 mi · 300
- Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elem School1.0 mi · 567
- Arlington Elementary School1.0 mi · 322
- Homebound Elementary1.0 mi · 2
Frequently asked questions
About Lexington Trad Magnet SchoolHow large is Lexington Trad Magnet School?
Lexington Trad Magnet School enrolls approximately 284 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Lexington Trad Magnet School serve?
Lexington Trad Magnet School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lexington Trad Magnet School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lexington Trad Magnet School is approximately 8.5:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lexington Trad Magnet School?
Student demographics at Lexington Trad Magnet School are roughly 17% White, 10% Hispanic, 65% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Lexington Trad Magnet School in?
Lexington Trad Magnet School is part of Fayette County.
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