T C Cherry Elementary School

T C Cherry Elementary School is a primary school of mid-tier scale in Bowling Green, Kentucky, overseen by Bowling Green Independent, teacheing 431 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Bowling Green Independent comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,765 students; T C Cherry Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, T C Cherry Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, T C Cherry Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Warren County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, T C Cherry Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Warren County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,794 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. T C Cherry Elementary School is one of 45 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 23,324 students).

Bowling Green High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around T C Cherry Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), T C Cherry Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at T C Cherry Elementary School has edged up 53%, going from 281 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 60% to 43%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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