Mercer County Day Treatment

Mercer County Day Treatment is a high school of micro-enrollment scale in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, operated by Mercer County, enrolling 11 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 98% below the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Mercer County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,674 students; Mercer County Day Treatment is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mercer County Day Treatment records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Mercer County Day Treatment lists 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Mercer County Day Treatment tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Mercer County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,824 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Mercer County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,199 students), Mercer County Day Treatment is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mercer Central, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 12 students in 2018 compared to 11 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 6.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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