Southern Oaks Elementary School

As a mid-sized elementary school in Utica, Kentucky, Southern Oaks Elementary School instructs 468 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Daviess County.

Daviess County comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 10,948 students; Southern Oaks Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Southern Oaks Elementary School lists that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Southern Oaks Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.1%; this one delivers 51.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Daviess County) records that the typical household earns roughly $68,214 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Daviess County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students), Southern Oaks Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is F T Burns Middle School, roughly 4.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southern Oaks Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Southern Oaks Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.

Southern Oaks Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 8% to 2%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.