Prichard Elementary School

Prichard Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community in Grayson, Kentucky, run under Carter County. The school works with 612 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Prichard Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Carter County, a district that hosts 3,980 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Prichard Elementary School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Prichard Elementary School records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Prichard Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Carter County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $51,235 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Carter County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,980 students), Prichard Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: East Carter Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Prichard Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 687 students in 2018 compared to 612 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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