Memorial Elementary School

As an intimate elementary campus in Hardyville, Kentucky, Memorial Elementary School teaches 335 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Hart County. That puts it 20% below the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Hart County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,322 students. Memorial Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Memorial Elementary School reports that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Memorial Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Hart County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Memorial Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 37.7%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hart County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,285 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Hart County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,646 students), Memorial Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hart County High School, around 6.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Memorial Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Memorial Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 351 (now 335). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Memorial Elementary School typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.