Wayland Alexander Elementary School

Wayland Alexander Elementary School is one of the sprawling elementary schools in Hartford, Kentucky, operated by Ohio County, with 635 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Wayland Alexander Elementary School sits 51% above that benchmark.

Within Ohio County, which oversees 10 schools and 3,726 students, Wayland Alexander Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Wayland Alexander Elementary School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Ohio County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Wayland Alexander Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ohio County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $57,798 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Ohio County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,726 students), Wayland Alexander Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Ohio County Alternative Learning Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wayland Alexander Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 729 students in 2018 compared to 635 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 4% to 8% over that span.

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