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What's something Shelby County East Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
505
Middle
DISTRICT 534 · STATE 558
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHELBY COUNTY·NCES 210532001294
Shelby County East Middle School
600 Rocket Lane, Shelbyville, KY 40065 · (502) 633-1478 · Shelby County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL505 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Kentucky public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
212 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 63%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 173 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 172 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 160 | 32% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
41.3%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
33.7%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Shelby County East Middle School
Shelby County East Middle School's state test result (34.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby County East Middle School this school | 505 | 42.0% | 34.2% |
| Woodford County Middle School Versailles | 897 | 43.6% | 45.5% |
| Camp Ernst Middle School Burlington | 688 | 43.0% | 46.1% |
| Royal Spring Middle School Georgetown | 719 | 42.6% | 45.7% |
| Hebron Middle School Shepherdsville | 569 | 47.1% | 35.3% |
| B. Michael Caudill Middle School Richmond | 517 | 46.0% | 56.8% |
Matched among Kentucky middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Shelby County East Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #159 of 216 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #155 of 216 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #154 of 217 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 505 | #130 of 221 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #133 of 210 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.2% | #69 of 210 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.0% | #198 of 219 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.9% | #16 of 156 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
505
-72 (-12%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 18.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 505 | 30.5 | 16.6:1 | 42% (212) |
| 2023-24 | 556 | 29.9 | 18.6:1 | 45% (248) |
| 2022-23 | 552 | 32.2 | 17.2:1 | 47% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 577 | 32 | 18.0:1 | 44% (251) |
| 2017-18 | 710 | 26.4 | 26.9:1 | 58% (415) |
| 2015-16 | 667 | 27 | 24.7:1 | 55% (370) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | 30 | 15.8:1 | 45% (211) |
| 2000-01 | 585 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 28% (166) |
| 1990-91 | 519 | 29 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shelby County East Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (710 to 505); teachers up 15% (26.4 to 30.5).
About Shelby County East Middle School
The public middle school Shelby County East Middle School is located in Shelbyville, Kentucky. It enrolls 505 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8.
Shelby County East Middle School is one school in a 14-school district, Shelby County, which enrolls 6,985 students.
About 70% of the student body at Shelby County East Middle School is White. The remaining students are 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Black. Among people living in Shelby County, the White share is about 80%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 46, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1. The average for middle schools in Kentucky, 15.8:1, is lower. A total of 212 students, or 42%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 45% average for public schools in Shelby County.
Among Kentucky public middle schools, Shelby County East Middle School outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Shelby County East Middle School ranks in the bottom 10% in Kentucky. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 34.2%, against a prediction of 49.4%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Shelby County show that the median household earns about $82,604 a year, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Shelby County, 16 public schools serve about 6,985 students.
Wright Elementary is about 0.2 miles from Shelby County East Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Shelby County East Middle School places 2nd of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale data from NCES put Shelby County East Middle School in rural territory close to an urban area (Rural: Fringe).
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 12%, from 577 to 505. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 18.0:1 to 16.6:1.
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Shelby County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
49,096
Census ACS
Median income
$82,604
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
6,985 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Shelby County
- Martha Layne Collins High SchoolHigh · 1,157 students
- Shelby County High SchoolHigh · 1,003 students
- Marnel C. Moorman SchoolElementary · 803 students
- Shelby County West Middle SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Wright ElementaryElementary · 489 students
- Painted Stone ElementaryElementary · 458 students
Other schools in Shelbyville
- Martha Layne Collins High SchoolHigh · 1,157 students
- Shelby County High SchoolHigh · 1,003 students
- Marnel C. Moorman SchoolElementary · 803 students
- Shelby County West Middle SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Wright ElementaryElementary · 489 students
- Painted Stone ElementaryElementary · 458 students
Nearby schools
- Wright Elementary0.2 mi · 489
- Ascension Academy0.5 mi · 32
- Cultivate Virtual Learning Academy0.5 mi · 82
- Shelby County High School0.5 mi · 1,003
- Clear Creek Elementary2.3 mi · 425
- Northside Early Childhood Center2.3 mi · 228
Frequently asked questions
About Shelby County East Middle SchoolHow many students attend Shelby County East Middle School?
Shelby County East Middle School enrolls approximately 505 students in grades 06-08.
Is Shelby County East Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Shelby County East Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Shelby County East Middle School have?
Shelby County East Middle School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Shelby County East Middle School?
At Shelby County East Middle School, the student body is approximately 70% White, 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Shelby County East Middle School?
Shelby County East Middle School is overseen by Shelby County in Shelby County.
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