Memorial Education Center

In Somerset, Kentucky, Memorial Education Center is a small elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through kindergarten, and the school has 231 students. The average for elementary schools in Kentucky is about 421 students, so this school is 45% smaller than average.

Pulaski County counts 7,729 students in its 14 schools, and Memorial Education Center is one of them.

White students are the large majority at Memorial Education Center, with 84% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 9% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Pulaski County's population at about 94%. Memorial Education Center has a diversity index of 28%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

The school employs the equivalent of 1 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 231.0:1. Among elementary schools in Kentucky, the typical ratio is 15.4:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 55%. On average, public schools in Pulaski County report 64%.

Across Pulaski County, median household income is about $51,898, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 18% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 16%. The public schools of Pulaski County number 19 and enroll about 9,989.

The shortest distance from Memorial Education Center to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Eagle Academy. The five-mile area around Memorial Education Center holds at least 8 other public schools.

NCES describes the area around Memorial Education Center as Town: Remote, meaning in a town far from an urbanized area.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Memorial Education Center went from 189 students to 231. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 189.0:1 to 231.0:1.

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