Raceland-Worthington High School

Raceland-Worthington High School, a close-knit secondary school in Raceland, Kentucky, one of the schools within Raceland-Worthington Independent, works with 387 students, covering grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 558.

Across the 5 schools in Raceland-Worthington Independent (1,120 students total), Raceland-Worthington High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Raceland-Worthington High School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Greenup County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Raceland-Worthington High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -13.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Greenup County put the typical household earns roughly $60,751 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Greenup County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,653 students), of which Raceland-Worthington High School is one.

The closest other public school is Raceland-Worthington Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Raceland-Worthington High School. On composite proficiency, Raceland-Worthington High School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Raceland-Worthington High School's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 387).

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