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Schools in Lexington · Fayette County School District

Lexington’s public schools score below 59% of Kentucky districts

The public schools Lexington’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 59% of Kentucky’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

#42Best public schools of 126 #104Graduation rate39%beats similar-income towns

Reading proficiency

45%

▲ 4 pts vs KY 41%

2020–21

Math proficiency

35%

▲ 5 pts vs KY 30%

2020–21

Graduate on time

88%

▼ 4 pts vs KY 92%

class of 2020

Spent per student

$18.7K

▲ 27% vs KY $14.8K

FY2024

Students per teacher

13.8

KY 15.4 · smaller classes

Schools

107

42,142 students

In brief

What Lexington’s schools are like

Which school depends on your street

With 39 elementary, 14 middle and eight high schools, the school a child attends depends on your address. Elementary grades range from D to A+, so it’s worth checking the specific school, not just the town. See the path ↓

A strong private-school presence

Alongside 80 public schools, Lexington has 27 private schools. Every school ↓

This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.

The School Grade

How Lexington compares

A− Test scoresD Graduation

Kentucky school districts we grade (172)Better than 41%

Lower resultsHigher results

Kentucky towns with similar household incomes (170)Better than 39%

High confidence. Built on 17,253 tested students and a graduating class of 3,012; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kentucky’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Kentucky only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

Where will my kid go?

Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Lexington.

39 schools teach K in Lexington’s district. Which one depends on your address: Sandersville Elementary, Coventry Oak Elementary, Garrett Morgan Elementary and Liberty Elementary and more.

The path, start to finish

PK–539 elementary schoolsDepends on your address

6–814 middle schoolsDepends on your address

9–128 high schoolsDepends on your address

The district

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Fayette County School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 80 schools · 42,138 students

$18,742KY $14,752

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Test scores · 2020–21

Above the state in reading

Reading45%

State average 41.3%

Math35%

State average 29.6%

Every school in Lexington

107 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.

Elementary