Monroe Co Middle

Located at 600 South Main, in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, Monroe Co Middle is a compact junior high that instructs 399 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Monroe County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Monroe Co Middle sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

Monroe County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,856 students; Monroe Co Middle is among them.

Demographically, Monroe Co Middle lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 10% Hispanic, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Monroe Co Middle logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Monroe Co Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $51,280 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Monroe County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,856 students), Monroe Co Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Monroe Co High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Monroe Co Middle comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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