Marnel C. Moorman School

As a sizable elementary school in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Marnel C. Moorman School works with 803 students from grades K through 8, operated by Shelby County. Enrollment runs roughly 91% above the state mean of about 421.

Within Shelby County, which oversees 14 schools and 6,985 students, Marnel C. Moorman School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Marnel C. Moorman School shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Marnel C. Moorman School is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.0%; Marnel C. Moorman School posts 33.4%, -15.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,604 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,985 students), of which Marnel C. Moorman School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Martha Layne Collins High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marnel C. Moorman School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.7%.

Marnel C. Moorman School operates from a countryside location.

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