Wellington Elementary

Wellington Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school in Lexington, Kentucky, part of Fayette County. The school hosts 608 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 44% bigger than typical.

Fayette County runs 73 schools in total, collectively educating 42,138 students. Wellington Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Wellington Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 17% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Wellington Elementary reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Fayette County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wellington Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Fayette County put the typical household earns roughly $69,479 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Fayette County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), of which Wellington Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jessie M Clark Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wellington Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 736 students in 2018 compared to 608 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 55% across the same window.

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