New Castle Elementary School

New Castle Elementary School is a cozy primary school in New Castle, Kentucky, one of the schools within Henry County. The school teaches 326 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 23% smaller than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Across the 6 schools in Henry County (1,984 students total), New Castle Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, New Castle Elementary School reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, New Castle Elementary School lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at New Castle Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Henry County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Castle Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.4%; this one comes in at 24.3%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Henry County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,347, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Henry County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,990 students), New Castle Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Henry County Early Childhood, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Castle Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.4%.

New Castle Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Castle Elementary School has ticked down 9%, going from 360 students in 2018 to 326 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 89% to 83% over that span.

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