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Public Schools in Kentucky

1,395 schools · 173 districts · 659,042 students

45%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Kentucky

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Lafayette High School

Lexington

2,432 students

Marion C. Moore School

Louisville

2,320 students

Madison Central High School

Richmond

2,226 students

Eastern High

Middletown

2,036 students

Henry Clay High School

Lexington

2,031 students

Pathfinder School of Innovation

Louisville

2,030 students

Ballard High

Louisville

2,014 students

Larry A. Ryle High School

Union

2,013 students

McCracken County High School

Paducah

1,999 students

Louisville Male High

Louisville

1,991 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Kentucky has 1,395 public schools across 173 districts, serving 659,042 students.

The largest school in Kentucky is Lafayette High School with 2,432 students. Kentucky has 1,395 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 45%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.