Perryville Elementary School
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Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedWhat this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in Kentucky's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Perryville Elementary School
Perryville Elementary School is an elementary campus of close-knit scale in Perryville, Kentucky, run under Boyle County, teacheing 313 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Perryville Elementary School sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.
Boyle County runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,951 students. Perryville Elementary School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Perryville Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Perryville Elementary School lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Perryville Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 68.1%, a residual of +24.8 points.
In the surrounding community, Boyle County reports that median household income runs about $61,159, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Perryville Elementary School is one of 14 public schools in Boyle County (combined enrollment of about 4,810 students).
The closest other public school is Boyle County Middle School, roughly 8.6 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perryville Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.5%.
Perryville Elementary School operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Perryville Elementary School has increased 20%, going from 261 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.
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