Mercer County Senior High School

Mercer County Senior High School is one of the mid-tier four-year high schools in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, run under Mercer County, with 748 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 34% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Mercer County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,674 students. Mercer County Senior High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mercer County Senior High School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Mercer County Senior High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mercer County Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.1%; this one delivers 49.5%.

Around the school, 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%. Mercer County Senior High School is one of 8 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 3,199 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mercer County Intermediate School, around 0.3 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mercer County Senior High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 808 students in 2018 compared to 748 in 2025.

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