Paris High School

Paris High School, a cozy high school in Paris, Kentucky, one of the schools within Paris Independent, instructs 267 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Paris Independent comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 859 students; Paris High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Paris High School shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 22% Black, 18% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Paris High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Paris High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bourbon County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Paris High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 24.3%.

In the area at large, Bourbon County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,354, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Bourbon County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,416 students), of which Paris High School is one.

The closest other public school is Paris Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Paris High School. On composite proficiency, Paris High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Paris High School has rose 35%, going from 198 students in 2018 to 267 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 52% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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