Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School
Lexington, KY · Middle School · Grades 6-8
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School is a middle school in Lexington, KY with 1,081 students enrolled and a 63% proficiency rate. Part of Fayette County. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School is a middle school located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school serves 1,081 students in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 63% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
37% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School is part of the Fayette County in Kentucky.
How This School Compares
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School has 1,081 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Fayette County (567 students). Its 63% proficiency rate is 14 percentage points above the district average of 49%. Compared to the Kentucky state average of 45%, the school performs 17 points higher. With a 14.6:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School has 1,081 students enrolled in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1.
According to EDFacts data, 63% of students at Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School is part of the Fayette County in Lexington, Kentucky. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.