Morton Middle School

Morton Middle School is one of the moderately sized intermediate schools in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the schools within Fayette County, with 604 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Morton Middle School is one of 73 schools operated by Fayette County, a district that teaches 42,138 students overall.

On demographics, Morton Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Fayette County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Morton Middle School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fayette County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Morton Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fayette County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,479 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Fayette County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), of which Morton Middle School is one.

Cassidy Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Morton Middle School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Morton Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 716 (now 604). The White share of enrollment contracted from 67% to 58% over that span.

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