W R McNeill Elementary School

W R McNeill Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in Bowling Green, Kentucky, run under Bowling Green Independent, with 433 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Bowling Green Independent, which oversees 10 schools and 4,765 students, W R McNeill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, W R McNeill Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 22% Black, 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Warren County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Warren County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, W R McNeill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 54.7%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Warren County shows median household income runs about $65,794, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. W R McNeill Elementary School is one of 45 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 23,324 students).

Bowling Green Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W R McNeill Elementary School. On composite proficiency, W R McNeill Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

W R McNeill Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W R McNeill Elementary School has climbed 9%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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