Lone Jack School Center

Lone Jack School Center, a tight-knit elementary campus in Fourmile, Kentucky, one of the schools within Bell County, instructs 196 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Across the 7 schools in Bell County (2,436 students total), Lone Jack School Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Lone Jack School Center records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%).

On the income-and-resources front, Lone Jack School Center logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Lone Jack School Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Lone Jack School Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bell County put the typical household earns roughly $31,354 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 25%. Lone Jack School Center is one of 18 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 4,135 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pineville Independent School, around 3.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lone Jack School Center. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lone Jack School Center ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.1%.

Lone Jack School Center operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lone Jack School Center has changed only slightly, going from 192 students in 2018 to 196 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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