Russell-McDowell Intermediate School

Russell-McDowell Intermediate School operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Flatwoods, Kentucky, run under Russell Independent. Current enrollment sits at 442 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Across the 5 schools in Russell Independent (2,053 students total), Russell-McDowell Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Russell-McDowell Intermediate School logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, Russell-McDowell Intermediate School shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Russell-McDowell Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Greenup County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,751 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Russell-McDowell Intermediate School is one of 17 public schools in Greenup County (combined enrollment of about 5,653 students).

The closest other public school is Russell Primary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Russell-McDowell Intermediate School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Russell-McDowell Intermediate School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025.

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