Union County High School

Set in Morganfield, Kentucky, Union County High School is a medium-sized senior high, run under Union County. It enrolls 642 students across grades 9 through 12.

Union County runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,086 students. Union County High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Union County High School logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Union County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Union County High School shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Union County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Union County High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.6%; this one comes in at 26.5%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Union County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,327 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Union County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,086 students), Union County High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Union County Preschool and Headstart, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Union County High School. On composite proficiency, Union County High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Union County High School's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 682 (now 642). Black enrollment moved from 10% to 5% across the same window.

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