William G. Conkwright Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary school in Winchester, Kentucky, William G. Conkwright Elementary teaches 499 students from grades K through 4, run under Clark County.

Within Clark County, which oversees 10 schools and 5,552 students, William G. Conkwright Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, William G. Conkwright Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 9% Black, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Clark County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, William G. Conkwright Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Clark County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,348 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. William G. Conkwright Elementary is one of 11 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 5,552 students).

The closest other public school is Willis H. Justice Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, William G. Conkwright Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. William G. Conkwright Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 499). The White share of enrollment contracted from 85% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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