Simmons Elementary School

Simmons Elementary School operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Versailles, Kentucky, overseen by Woodford County. Current enrollment sits at 415 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Woodford County runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,064 students. Simmons Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Simmons Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Woodford County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Woodford County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Simmons Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Woodford County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,788 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Woodford County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,064 students), of which Simmons Elementary School is one.

Woodford County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Simmons Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Simmons Elementary School has contracted 5%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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