Red Cross Elementary School

As a substantial elementary campus in Glasgow, Kentucky, Red Cross Elementary School caters to 679 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Barren County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Red Cross Elementary School sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

Barren County runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,908 students. Red Cross Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Red Cross Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Red Cross Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, Barren County reports that the typical household earns roughly $50,628 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Red Cross Elementary School is one of 21 public schools in Barren County (combined enrollment of about 7,749 students).

The closest other public school is Glasgow Preschool Academy, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Red Cross Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Red Cross Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 688 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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