Munfordville Elementary School

Munfordville Elementary School is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Munfordville, Kentucky, overseen by Hart County, with 489 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 6 schools in Hart County (2,322 students total), Munfordville Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Munfordville Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Hart County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Munfordville Elementary School lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at Munfordville Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Munfordville Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hart County) shows that median household earnings sit near $52,285, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Munfordville Elementary School is one of 8 public schools in Hart County (combined enrollment of about 2,646 students).

Hart County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Munfordville Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Munfordville Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 489). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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