Mount Sterling Elementary School

Set in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Mount Sterling Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary-level community, operated by Montgomery County. It works with 464 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Mount Sterling Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Montgomery County, a district that works with 4,442 students overall.

On demographics, Mount Sterling Elementary School logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 65% of students at Mount Sterling Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Sterling Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,396 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Mount Sterling Elementary School is one of 9 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 4,442 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gateway Children's Services, around 1.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mount Sterling Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.9%.

Mount Sterling Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Sterling Elementary School has ticked down 22%, going from 596 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 9% to 14% over that span.

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