Metcalfe County High School

Metcalfe County High School operates as an intimate four-year high school in Edmonton, Kentucky, operated by Metcalfe County. Current enrollment sits at 454 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Metcalfe County runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,412 students. Metcalfe County High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Metcalfe County High School records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Metcalfe County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Metcalfe County High School lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 72% of students at Metcalfe County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Metcalfe County High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Metcalfe County put the typical household earns roughly $51,473 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Metcalfe County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,412 students), Metcalfe County High School is one campus in the mix.

Metcalfe County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Metcalfe County High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.1%.

Metcalfe County High School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 495 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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