Rockcastle County High School

Located at 1545 Lake Cumberland Road, in Mount Vernon, Kentucky, Rockcastle County High School is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school that enrolls 796 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Rockcastle County. That puts it 43% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Rockcastle County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,792 students. Rockcastle County High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Rockcastle County High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Rockcastle County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at Rockcastle County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rockcastle County High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Rockcastle County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,862 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Rockcastle County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,792 students), of which Rockcastle County High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement, around 0.5 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rockcastle County High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 862 students in 2018 compared to 796 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Rockcastle County High School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.