Northside Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Midway, Kentucky, Northside Elementary School works with 360 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Woodford County.

Woodford County runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,064 students. Northside Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northside Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at Northside Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northside Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.5%; this one delivers 44.4%.

Around the school, census data for Woodford County shows median household income runs about $83,788, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Woodford County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,064 students), of which Northside Elementary School is one.

Western Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northside Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northside Elementary School has fell 4%, going from 376 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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