Lone Oak Middle School

As a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Paducah, Kentucky, Lone Oak Middle School works with 702 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by McCracken County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Lone Oak Middle School sits 26% above that benchmark.

Lone Oak Middle School is one of 13 schools operated by McCracken County, a district that hosts 6,780 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lone Oak Middle School reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Lone Oak Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than McCracken County's rate of about 57%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lone Oak Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.1%; this one delivers 62.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for McCracken County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,373 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, McCracken County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,883 students), of which Lone Oak Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hendron Lone Oak Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lone Oak Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 764 students in 2018 compared to 702 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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