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Enrollment
594
Middle
DISTRICT 445 · STATE 558
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NELSON COUNTY·NCES 210441001095
Old Kentucky Home Middle School
301 Wildcat Ln, Bardstown, KY 40004 · (502) 349-7040 · Nelson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL594 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Kentucky public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
289 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 63%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 210 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 186 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 198 | 33% |
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
34.7%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
27.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.0%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Old Kentucky Home Middle School
Old Kentucky Home Middle School's state test result (28.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Kentucky Home Middle School this school | 594 | 48.7% | 28.9% |
| Boyle County Middle School Danville | 655 | 49.8% | 54.1% |
| Russell Middle School Russell | 488 | 46.1% | 44.5% |
| Anderson County Middle School Lawrenceburg | 768 | 48.3% | 47.3% |
| Woodland Middle School Taylor Mill | 542 | 46.9% | 52.3% |
| North Marshall Middle School Calvert City | 487 | 51.5% | 51.9% |
Matched among Kentucky middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Old Kentucky Home Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #182 of 216 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #189 of 216 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.7% | #186 of 217 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 594 | #95 of 221 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #199 of 210 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.0% | #161 of 210 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.7% | #168 of 219 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +69.7% | #3 of 49 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
594
+236 (+66%) vs 2020
+10% since 1990-91, when it was 540
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 594 | 31 | 19.2:1 | 49% (289) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 22 | 17.8:1 | 47% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 368 | 22 | 16.7:1 | 40% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 358 | 22 | 16.3:1 | 42% (150) |
| 2017-18 | 350 | 19.8 | 17.7:1 | 57% (198) |
| 2015-16 | 418 | 21 | 19.9:1 | 56% (234) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 46% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 468 | 26 | 18.0:1 | 39% (182) |
| 1990-91 | 540 | 28 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Old Kentucky Home Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 70% (350 to 594); teachers up 57% (19.8 to 31).
About Old Kentucky Home Middle School
Among the schools in Bardstown, Kentucky, is Old Kentucky Home Middle School, a medium-sized middle school. The school's enrollment of 594 students covers grades 6 through 8.
Old Kentucky Home Middle School falls under Nelson County, which has 12 schools enrolling 4,178 students.
Federal enrollment data show Old Kentucky Home Middle School is 90% White. Other groups make up 4% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. County-wide, about 90% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is an 18% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Old Kentucky Home Middle School's 31 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 19.2:1. On average, middle schools in Kentucky have 15.8:1, compared with 19.2:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 49%.
allk12 grades Old Kentucky Home Middle School a D. The grade compares the school only with Kentucky public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at Old Kentucky Home Middle School are 18.1 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 28.9%, compared with a predicted 47.0%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Kentucky.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Nelson County show that the median household income is $69,562, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Besides Old Kentucky Home Middle School, Nelson County has 19 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is The Academy at Horizons, less than a tenth of a mile away. Old Kentucky Home Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 38.1% on proficiency, and Old Kentucky Home Middle School is below that at 28.9%.
NCES assigns Old Kentucky Home Middle School the locale Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Old Kentucky Home Middle School reported 358 students in 2020-21 and 594 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. By 2024-25, the school had 19.2 students per teacher, compared with 16.3 in 2020-21.
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Nelson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,606
Census ACS
Median income
$69,562
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
7,047 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Nelson County
- Nelson County High SchoolHigh · 756 students
- Thomas Nelson High SchoolHigh · 629 students
- Foster Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
- Coxs Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Bloomfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 296 students
- Boston SchoolElementary · 251 students
Other schools in Bardstown
- Bardstown Elementary SchoolElementary · 847 students
- Nelson County High SchoolHigh · 756 students
- Bardstown High SchoolHigh · 703 students
- Thomas Nelson High SchoolHigh · 629 students
- Bardstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- Foster Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
Nearby schools
- The Academy at Horizons0.1 mi · 38
- Nelson County High School0.2 mi · 756
- Heartland Youth Village0.9 mi · 15
- Nelson County Early Learning Center1.6 mi · 150
- Bardstown Early Childhood Center2.5 mi · 263
- Bardstown High School2.6 mi · 703
Frequently asked questions
About Old Kentucky Home Middle SchoolHow many students attend Old Kentucky Home Middle School?
Old Kentucky Home Middle School enrolls approximately 594 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Old Kentucky Home Middle School serve?
Old Kentucky Home Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Old Kentucky Home Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Old Kentucky Home Middle School is approximately 19.2:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Old Kentucky Home Middle School?
At Old Kentucky Home Middle School, the student body is approximately 90% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Old Kentucky Home Middle School in?
Old Kentucky Home Middle School is part of Nelson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.