Whitley County Middle School

As a reasonably sized middle school in Williamsburg, Kentucky, Whitley County Middle School enrolls 547 students from grades 7 through 8, part of Whitley County.

Within Whitley County, which oversees 11 schools and 4,234 students, Whitley County Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Whitley County Middle School shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at Whitley County Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Whitley County Middle School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 36.8%; this one delivers 55.7%, a residual of +18.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Whitley County) shows that median household income runs about $44,615, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Whitley County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,324 students), of which Whitley County Middle School is one.

Whitley County Alternative School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Whitley County Middle School. On composite proficiency, Whitley County Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Whitley County Middle School's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 547). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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