McKee Elementary School

McKee Elementary School is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in McKee, Kentucky, part of Jackson County, enrolling 391 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Jackson County comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 1,997 students; McKee Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, McKee Elementary School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, McKee Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting McKee Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McKee Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Kentucky schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 38.0%; actual is 69.5%, +31.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $40,000, 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Jackson County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,997 students), of which McKee Elementary School is one.

Jackson County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around McKee Elementary School. On composite proficiency, McKee Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 366 students in 2018 compared to 391 in 2025.

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