Williamstown Elementary

Williamstown Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Williamstown, Kentucky, overseen by Williamstown Independent. Current enrollment sits at 397 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Williamstown Independent (859 students total), Williamstown Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Williamstown Elementary logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Williamstown Elementary records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Grant County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Williamstown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -11.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Grant County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,178 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Grant County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,075 students), of which Williamstown Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Williamstown Jr. High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Williamstown Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Williamstown Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 33.3%.

Williamstown Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 14%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 397 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Williamstown Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.