Wurtland Elementary School

Wurtland Elementary School is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in Wurtland, Kentucky, overseen by Greenup County, works with 203 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 421.

Greenup County runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,509 students. Wurtland Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Wurtland Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder is composed of 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Greenup County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wurtland Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Greenup County) shows that median household income runs about $60,751, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Wurtland Elementary School is one of 17 public schools in Greenup County (combined enrollment of about 5,653 students).

Wurtland Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wurtland Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wurtland Elementary School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 35.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wurtland Elementary School has declined 15%, going from 240 students in 2018 to 203 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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