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Does Morton Middle School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
604
Middle
DISTRICT 741 · STATE 558
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAYETTE COUNTY·NCES 210186000374
Morton Middle School
1225 Tates Creek Pk, Lexington, KY 40502 · (859) 381-3533 · Fayette County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL604 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of Kentucky public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
244 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 211 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 171 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 222 | 37% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
61.3%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
53.3%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Morton Middle School
Morton Middle School's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morton Middle School this school | 604 | 40.4% | 55.0% |
| Ockerman Middle School Florence | 674 | 42.0% | 38.5% |
| Talton K Stone Middle School Elizabethtown | 526 | 43.0% | 43.5% |
| Royal Spring Middle School Georgetown | 719 | 42.6% | 45.7% |
| Kammerer Middle Louisville | 781 | 44.0% | 37.0% |
| Camp Ernst Middle School Burlington | 688 | 43.0% | 46.1% |
Matched among Kentucky middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Morton Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Fayette County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #27 of 216 | #4 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #40 of 216 | #5 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #32 of 217 | #4 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 604 | #92 of 221 | #10 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #43 of 210 | #8 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.9% | #44 of 210 | #9 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.4% | #201 of 219 | #8 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.6% | #62 of 156 | #3 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
604
-143 (-19%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 705
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 604 | 42.1 | 14.3:1 | 40% (244) |
| 2023-24 | 641 | 46.1 | 13.9:1 | 43% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 705 | 48.1 | 14.7:1 | 43% (303) |
| 2020-21 | 747 | 48 | 15.6:1 | 51% (381) |
| 2017-18 | 716 | 49.8 | 14.4:1 | 44% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 774 | 52 | 14.9:1 | 46% (357) |
| 2010-11 | 771 | 53 | 14.6:1 | 40% (311) |
| 2000-01 | 709 | 51 | 13.9:1 | 24% (168) |
| 1990-91 | 705 | 47 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morton Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (716 to 604); teachers down 15% (49.8 to 42.1).
About Morton Middle School
Families in Lexington, Kentucky, are served by Morton Middle School, a mid-sized middle-grades school. It had 604 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8.
Fayette County, which runs Morton Middle School, has 73 schools and 42,138 students.
Of every 100 students at Morton Middle School, about 58 are White. The rest of enrollment is 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Among all residents of Fayette County, the White share is about 68%. The diversity index for Morton Middle School is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Morton Middle School reports a ratio of 14.3 students per teacher, from 42.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Kentucky is 15.8:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Morton Middle School, 40% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Fayette County is 10 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Morton Middle School lands at A, ahead of 85% of Kentucky public middle schools.
The model predicts 50.0% for a school in Kentucky with Morton Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Morton Middle School posts 55.0%.
Census data for Fayette County show median household income comes to about $69,479, about 48% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 81 public schools and about 42,142 students.
The closest school to Morton Middle School is Cassidy Elementary School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Morton Middle School. In a group of 5 nearby schools with scores, Morton Middle School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Morton Middle School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 19% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.3:1) than in 2020-21 (15.6:1).
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Fayette County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
323,725
Census ACS
Median income
$69,479
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
81
42,142 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fayette County
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 2,370 students
- Bryan Station High SchoolHigh · 2,030 students
- Henry Clay High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar High SchoolHigh · 1,828 students
- Frederick Douglass High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Tates Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,723 students
Other schools in Lexington
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 2,370 students
- Bryan Station High SchoolHigh · 2,030 students
- Henry Clay High SchoolHigh · 1,939 students
- Paul Laurence Dunbar High SchoolHigh · 1,828 students
- Frederick Douglass High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Tates Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,723 students
Other Morton Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Morton Middle. Morton Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Morton MiddleFall River, MA · 751 students
- Morton Middle SchoolVandalia, OH · 699 students
Nearby schools
- Cassidy Elementary School0.1 mi · 632
- Opportunity Middle College0.7 mi · 102
- Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elem School0.9 mi · 567
- Homebound Elementary0.9 mi · 2
- Homebound Secondary0.9 mi · 6
- Ashland Elementary School1.1 mi · 316
Frequently asked questions
About Morton Middle SchoolHow many students attend Morton Middle School?
Morton Middle School enrolls approximately 604 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Morton Middle School serve?
Morton Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Morton Middle School?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Morton Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Morton Middle School?
At Morton Middle School, the student body is approximately 58% White, 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Morton Middle School public or private?
Morton Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fayette County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.