Northside Elementary School

Northside Elementary School is an intimate elementary school in Cynthiana, Kentucky, one of the schools within Harrison County. The school instructs 292 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Within Harrison County, which oversees 7 schools and 2,982 students, Northside Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Northside Elementary School records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Northside Elementary School shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harrison County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Northside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harrison County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,442 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harrison County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,982 students), Northside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eastside Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Northside Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northside Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 34.0%.

Northside Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 329 students in 2018 compared to 292 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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