Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement

Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement is a secondary school of very small scale in Mount Vernon, Kentucky, one of the schools within Rockcastle County, teacheing 39 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement sits 93% below that benchmark.

Rockcastle County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,792 students; Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement is among them.

On demographics, Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement lists that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Rockcastle County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Rockcastle County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Rockcastle County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,862 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Across Rockcastle County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,792 students), Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement is one campus in the mix.

Rockcastle County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 56%: 25 students in 2018 compared to 39 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 4% to 0%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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