Rosa Parks Elementary School

Rosa Parks Elementary School is an elementary school of sizable scale in Lexington, Kentucky, operated by Fayette County, enrolling 681 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Rosa Parks Elementary School sits 62% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Fayette County, which oversees 73 schools and 42,138 students, Rosa Parks Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Rosa Parks Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest is composed of 23% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Rosa Parks Elementary School lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 17% of students at Rosa Parks Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fayette County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Rosa Parks Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.5%; this one delivers 69.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fayette County) logs that median household income runs about $69,479, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rosa Parks Elementary School is one of 81 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students).

Beaumont Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rosa Parks Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Rosa Parks Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 719 (now 681). The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 27% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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