South Hopkins Middle School

Located at 9140 Hopkinsville Rd, in Nortonville, Kentucky, South Hopkins Middle School is a small junior high that instructs 300 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Hopkins County. Enrollment runs roughly 46% below the state mean of about 558.

Hopkins County comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,265 students; South Hopkins Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, South Hopkins Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, South Hopkins Middle School records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, South Hopkins Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hopkins County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,815 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hopkins County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,896 students), South Hopkins Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Southside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around South Hopkins Middle School. On composite proficiency, South Hopkins Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

South Hopkins Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Hopkins Middle School has edged down 27%, going from 411 students in 2018 to 300 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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