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What's the most underrated thing about Science Hill Elementary School that outsiders don't know?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Reading
58.7%
State avg 47.9%
District avg 58.7%
County avg 58.6%
District avg 58.7%
County avg 58.6%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Kentucky schools by score · Pulaski County schools by score
KSA (K-PREP), SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient/Distinguished.Mathematics
62.3%
State avg 42.8%
District avg 62.3%
County avg 58.6%
District avg 62.3%
County avg 58.6%
Science
39.0%
State avg 33.1%
District avg 39.0%
County avg 41.6%
District avg 39.0%
County avg 41.6%
Social Studies
43.5%
State avg 38.6%
District avg 43.5%
County avg 53.2%
District avg 43.5%
County avg 53.2%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 62 of 100 do math at grade level, about 39 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 44 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48, 43, 33, and 39.
Rank: Science Hill Elementary School places #162 of 669 Kentucky elementary schools, and #7 of 10 in Pulaski County for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
1-year history
All grades, all students. Science Hill Kentucky avgReading
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 58.7% | 58.7% | 58.6% | 47.9% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 62.3% | 62.3% | 58.6% | 42.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 39.0% | 39.0% | 41.6% | 33.1% |
Social Studies
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 43.5% | 43.5% | 53.2% | 38.6% |
Recent discussions
From the Science Hill Elementary School community.How to read these scores
What is KSA (K-PREP)?
KSA (K-PREP) is the statewide standardized test administered by Kentucky public schools.
What does "% Proficient/Distinguished" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 58.7% mean for Reading at Science Hill Elementary School?
It means about 58.7 percent of students tested at Science Hill Elementary School performed at grade level or above on the KSA (K-PREP) Reading test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Kentucky that year was 47.9%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Kentucky, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Kentucky Department of Education, Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA / K-PREP). School-level All Students subgroup from the KDE Open House supplemental datasets. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Distinguished" rate (top 2 of 4 KSA levels: Novice / Apprentice / Proficient / Distinguished).
How often is it updated?
KSA (K-PREP) is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.