Sinking Fork Elementary School

Sinking Fork Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, overseen by Christian County. Current enrollment sits at 430 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Christian County runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 8,682 students. Sinking Fork Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sinking Fork Elementary School logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 30% Black, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Christian County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 72% of students at Sinking Fork Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Sinking Fork Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.2%; this one delivers 47.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Christian County put median household income runs about $55,494, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Christian County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,682 students), of which Sinking Fork Elementary School is one.

Freedom Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sinking Fork Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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