Pride Elementary School

Located at 861 Pride Ave, in Madisonville, Kentucky, Pride Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 404 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Hopkins County.

Across the 14 schools in Hopkins County (6,265 students total), Pride Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Pride Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 60% of students at Pride Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pride Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hopkins County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,815, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Hopkins County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,896 students), Pride Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Browning Springs Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pride Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Pride Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 404). White enrollment moved from 68% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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