R C Hinsdale Elementary School

R C Hinsdale Elementary School is a primary school of average-sized scale in Edgewood, Kentucky, run under Kenton County, teacheing 555 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% larger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Across the 18 schools in Kenton County (13,834 students total), R C Hinsdale Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, R C Hinsdale Elementary School shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, R C Hinsdale Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kenton County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), R C Hinsdale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.3%.

In the surrounding community, Kenton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,548 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kenton County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,225 students), of which R C Hinsdale Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: James A Caywood Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, R C Hinsdale Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. R C Hinsdale Elementary School's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 609 (now 555). White enrollment moved from 88% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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