Maurice Bowling Middle School

Maurice Bowling Middle School operates as a mid-sized intermediate school in Owenton, Kentucky, run under Owen County. Current enrollment sits at 475 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Maurice Bowling Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Owen County, a district that caters to 1,680 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Maurice Bowling Middle School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% 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, Maurice Bowling Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.3%; this one comes in at 23.4%, -20.9 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Owen County shows median household income runs about $61,134, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Owen County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,680 students), Maurice Bowling Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Owen County High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Maurice Bowling Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maurice Bowling Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.1%.

Maurice Bowling Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 610 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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