Enrollment
385
Elementary
DISTRICT 411 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULASKI COUNTY·NCES 210495001235
Shopville Elementary School
10 Shopville Rd., Somerset, KY 42503 · (606) 274-4411 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL385 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 69% of Kentucky public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 38.3:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
258 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 63%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
54.7%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
49.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% 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 →
Schools most like Shopville Elementary School
Shopville Elementary School's state test result (50.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shopville Elementary School this school | 385 | 67.0% | 50.6% |
| W R Castle Memorial Elementary School Wittensville | 390 | 68.2% | 57.0% |
| Olive Hill Elementary School Olive Hill | 360 | 66.7% | 38.5% |
| Longest Elementary Greenville | 404 | 65.8% | 24.8% |
| Green County Primary School Greensburg | 447 | 65.1% | N/A |
| Mountain View Elementary Hyden | 435 | 67.6% | 54.9% |
Matched among Kentucky elementary 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 Shopville Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #223 of 669 | #9 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #247 of 668 | #9 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #249 of 674 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 385 | #458 of 744 | #7 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #307 of 674 | #6 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.8% | #532 of 674 | #8 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.0% | #343 of 721 | #7 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.2% | #140 of 233 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
385
+55 (+17%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 313
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 385 | 26.4 | 14.6:1 | 67% (258) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 21.6 | 16.7:1 | 67% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 352 | 23.8 | 14.8:1 | 66% (232) |
| 2020-21 | 330 | 21 | 15.7:1 | 71% (234) |
| 2017-18 | 366 | 25.3 | 14.5:1 | 66% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 352 | 24 | 14.7:1 | 72% (253) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 75% (301) |
| 2000-01 | 402 | 24 | 16.8:1 | 71% (287) |
| 1990-91 | 313 | 18 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shopville Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (366 to 385); teachers up 4% (25.3 to 26.4).
About Shopville Elementary School
Shopville Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in Somerset, Kentucky. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 385 students.
Shopville Elementary School is run by Pulaski County, whose 14 schools enroll 7,729 students.
Shopville Elementary School is 93% White by enrollment. Next come 4% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. That is in line with Pulaski County, where about 94% of residents are White. A diversity index of 13% means there is a 13% chance two randomly chosen students at Shopville Elementary School are from different groups.
The school has 26.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.6 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Kentucky have an average ratio of 15.4:1. The school reported 67% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Shopville Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 69% of Kentucky public elementary schools.
Shopville Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 50.6% is 10.4 points above the 40.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the surrounding county, Pulaski County, the median household earns about $51,898 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and about 16% of people live in poverty. Counting Shopville Elementary School, Pulaski County has 19 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Shopville Elementary School is closest to Northern Elementary School, about 4.2 miles away. Inside a ten-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 55.5%; Shopville Elementary School's is 50.6%, ranking 7th of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Distant: in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The school grew from 330 students in 2020-21 to 385 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.6:1) than in 2020-21 (15.7:1).
The allk12 page for Shopville Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,897
Census ACS
Median income
$51,898
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
9,989 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pulaski County
- Southwestern High SchoolHigh · 1,213 students
- Pulaski County High SchoolHigh · 1,113 students
- Southern Middle SchoolMiddle · 871 students
- Northern Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Southern Elementary SchoolElementary · 611 students
- Oak Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 551 students
Other schools in Somerset
- Southwestern High SchoolHigh · 1,213 students
- Pulaski County High SchoolHigh · 1,113 students
- Southern Middle SchoolMiddle · 871 students
- Northern Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Hopkins Elementary SchoolElementary · 750 students
- Southern Elementary SchoolElementary · 611 students
Nearby schools
- Northern Elementary School4.2 mi · 352
- Northern Middle School7.1 mi · 797
- Meece Middle School7.2 mi · 486
- Pulaski County High School7.4 mi · 1,113
- Hopkins Elementary School7.6 mi · 750
- Somerset High School7.7 mi · 526
Frequently asked questions
About Shopville Elementary SchoolHow large is Shopville Elementary School?
Shopville Elementary School enrolls approximately 385 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Shopville Elementary School serve?
Shopville Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Shopville Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Shopville Elementary School.
How diverse is Shopville Elementary School?
Shopville Elementary School reports a student body of 93% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Shopville Elementary School?
Shopville Elementary School is overseen by Pulaski County in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.