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What do you wish you knew before starting at Simpson Elementary School?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Reading
53.0%
State avg 47.9%
District avg 41.9%
County avg 41.9%
District avg 41.9%
County avg 41.9%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Kentucky schools by score · Simpson County schools by score
KSA (K-PREP), SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient/Distinguished.Mathematics
47.0%
State avg 42.8%
District avg 36.9%
County avg 36.9%
District avg 36.9%
County avg 36.9%
Science
N/A
State avg 33.1%
District avg 28.7%
County avg 28.7%
District avg 28.7%
County avg 28.7%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 38.6%
District avg 40.3%
County avg 40.3%
District avg 40.3%
County avg 40.3%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% 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. Simpson Kentucky avgReading
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 53.0% | 41.9% | 41.9% | 47.9% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 47.0% | 36.9% | 36.9% | 42.8% |
Recent discussions
From the Simpson 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 53.0% mean for Reading at Simpson Elementary School?
It means about 53.0 percent of students tested at Simpson 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.