Milton Elementary School

Milton Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary schools in Milton, Kentucky, run under Trimble County, with 232 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 45% smaller than the state mean of about 421.

Trimble County comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,194 students; Milton Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Milton Elementary School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Milton Elementary School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at Milton Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Milton Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.9%; this one comes in at 16.5%, -28.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Trimble County shows median household income runs about $66,027, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Trimble County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,194 students), Milton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lydia Middleton Elementary School, around 3.5 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Milton Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Milton Elementary School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 246 (now 232). White enrollment moved from 96% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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