Walton-Verona Elementary School

Walton-Verona Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Verona, Kentucky, overseen by Walton-Verona Independent. Current enrollment sits at 539 students spanning grades K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 28% larger than the state mean of about 421.

Within Walton-Verona Independent, which oversees 5 schools and 1,880 students, Walton-Verona Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Walton-Verona Elementary School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Boone County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Walton-Verona Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Walton-Verona Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Walton-Verona Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate median household income runs about $99,414, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Boone County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,394 students), of which Walton-Verona Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Walton-Verona Intermediate School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Walton-Verona Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walton-Verona Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 93% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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