Longest Elementary

Longest Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in Greenville, Kentucky, operated by Muhlenberg County. Current enrollment sits at 404 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Longest Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Muhlenberg County, a district that caters to 4,846 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Longest Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial. Compared to Muhlenberg County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Longest Elementary reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Longest Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.6%; Longest Elementary posts 24.8%, -15.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Muhlenberg County) records that the typical household earns roughly $51,927 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Muhlenberg County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,846 students), of which Longest Elementary is one.

The Renaissance Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Longest Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

Longest Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Longest Elementary has showed little movement, going from 410 students in 2018 to 404 in 2025.

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