Menifee Central School

Menifee Central School is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Frenchburg, Kentucky, operated by Menifee County, instructing 548 students in grades K through 7. That puts it 30% larger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Within Menifee County, which oversees 4 schools and 960 students, Menifee Central School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Menifee Central School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). Beyond that, the school reports 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Menifee Central School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 75% of students at Menifee Central School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Menifee Central School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 30.8%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the broader community, Menifee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $45,096 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Menifee County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 960 students), of which Menifee Central School is one.

Frenchburg Success Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Menifee Central School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

On the community side, the feed for Menifee Central School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.