Mckell Elementary School

Located at 28978 US 23 Hwy, in South Shore, Kentucky, Mckell Elementary School is a reasonably sized K-5 school that educates 465 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Greenup County.

Greenup County runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,509 students. Mckell Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mckell Elementary School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Greenup County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Mckell Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at Mckell Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Greenup County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mckell Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.5%.

In the broader community, census data for Greenup County shows median household earnings sit near $60,751, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Mckell Elementary School is one of 17 public schools in Greenup County (combined enrollment of about 5,653 students).

Mckell Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mckell Elementary School's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 465). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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