Powell County Middle School

Powell County Middle School operates as a compact middle school in Stanton, Kentucky, one of the schools within Powell County. Current enrollment sits at 418 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Powell County Middle School sits 25% below that benchmark.

Within Powell County, which oversees 6 schools and 2,031 students, Powell County Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Powell County Middle School lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Powell County Middle School lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Powell County Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.4%; actual is 22.1%, a gap of -18.4 points.

In the area at large, Powell County reports that the typical household earns roughly $40,309 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Powell County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,031 students), of which Powell County Middle School is one.

Powell County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Powell County Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Powell County Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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