Millcreek Elementary School

Millcreek Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Lexington, Kentucky, overseen by Fayette County, instructs 529 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 26% bigger than typical.

Fayette County comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 42,138 students; Millcreek Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Millcreek Elementary School reports that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 26% White, 23% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Fayette County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Millcreek Elementary School reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Millcreek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Fayette County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Millcreek Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.9%; this one comes in at 22.9%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Fayette County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,479 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Fayette County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), Millcreek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Tates Creek Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Millcreek Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Millcreek Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 549 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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