Kentucky Department of Education

Basic statistical information about Kentucky's schools, including number of schools, numbers of teachers and students, statewide education funding and other items.

 

For national statistics, visit the National Center for Education Statistics at http://nces.ed.gov/​. 

 

The Legislative Research Commission's Office of Education Accountability produces Kentucky District Data Profiles, which can be seen here.

 

Kentucky's public school system is directed by state statutes and regulations. 

 

 

173 (34 female superintendents; 139 male; 4 minority)

 

Number of public schools
(Does not include dependent districts Ft. Campbell and Ft. Knox, alternative programs or the Kentucky School for the Deaf and Kentucky School for the Blind)

1,253

 

Elementary (preschool-6th grade) – 696

Elementary/middle (any combination of P-6 and 6-8) – 84

Middle (6-8) – 225

Middle/high (any combination of 6-8 and 9-12) – 20

High (9-12) – 203

P-12 (any combination of P-6 and 6-8 and 9-12) – 12

Preschool – 12

 

These figures include only schools classified as A1 that serve the general population and do not include special or alternative programs or state-run school.

 

Five school districts do not have high schools. They are: Anchorage Independent, East Bernstadt Independent, Science Hill Independent, Southgate Independent and West Point Independent.

 

Career and technical schools

Locally operated – 42

State operated – 53

 

Number of public school teachers (actual headcount) 

42,040 (White – 95%; Minority – 5%; Male - 22%; Female – 78%) 

 

655,475 

 

White – 79%

African American – 10.5%

Hispanic – 6%

Asian – 1.6%

Hawaiian/Pacific Islander – less than 1%

Native American – less than 1%

Other – 3.3%

 

185 days (includes 170 days of instruction; four days of professional development; four holidays; two planning days)

 

Number of employed certified staff, minus teachers (actual headcount) 

8,788

 

$52,618

 

11 years, 8 months

 

3,273 (7.8% of the total teaching force)

 

6th nationwide 

 

2,323

 

0 (Program was not funded in the current biennium.)

161,500 (excludes conditional, adjunct, emergency and temporary certificates, as well as statements of eligibility)

 

Number of classified staff (actual head count) 

46,657

 

Average per-pupil current expense spending (excludes debt service, facilities and fund transfers)

$10,192

 

$3.0 billion [FY 17]

 

Total P-12 state education budget (includes general, federal and restricted fund sources)

$ 5.02 billion [FY 17]

 

$888 million [FY 17]

 

$2.5 billion [FY 16]

 

867 (172 districts have five-member boards; Jefferson County has seven because of its size.)

 

Male - 391 Female - 389; 142 either did not indicate gender or were elected/appointed since last demographic survey in 2016

 

White – 667, Non-White – 37, 163 unknown because they did not disclose or were elected/appointed since last demographic survey in 2016 

 

1,107 (41 exemptions – 27 because of accountability status; 14 in one-school districts)

NOTE: 703 KAR 5:040 mandates that schools classified as "A1" schools are eligible for SBDM councils. A1 schools do not include preschools, alternative schools, vocational-technical or special education schools.

 

Number of alternative SBDM models 

19

 

5,189
 

2,783,027

 

State dropout rate 

1.5%

 

1.9%

 

94.5%

 

89.5%

(Five-year adjusted cohort)

 

Successful Transition Rate​ (Percentage of high school graduates attending college, vocational/technical schools, entering the military, employed or a combination of the above)

93.2%

 

Pre-kindergarten (preschool) children enrolled in state-funded programs 

19,183 (includes children who meet eligibility criteria and children served through district funds or tuition) 

 

 

$90.1 million [FY 16]

 

Full day - 159

Half day - 8

Both – 6

 

Percent of individuals eligible for free or reduced-price meals in public schools (includes K-12 students; preschool/Head Start students; some adults who qualify through the National School Lunch Program)

70.57% [as of January 2017]

 

17,519 [as of December 2016]

 

83,787 [as of December 2015]

 

110,176

Primary Talent Pool (K-3): 21,612 (as of November 2016)

Formal ID (4-12): 88,564 (as of November 2016)

 

$6.6 million [FY 17]

 

31,463

 

49,865

 

24,777 (50%)

 

929

 

Number of public schools operating schoolwide Title I programs (those that serve all students in a school) 

916

 

13

 

$200,374,060 [FY 16]

 

$141,896

 

6

 

4,910

 

$3.2 million 

 

70

 

21,441

 

$3.2 million

 

$8 million

 

21,385 

 

Languages, other than English, spoken at home by EL students [2014-15 data from June 1, 2015]

Total – 139

Spanish (62%)

Arabic (5%)

Somali (3%)

Nepali (2%)

Japanese (2%)

Swahili (2%)

Karen (2%)

Mai Mai (1%)

Bosnian (2%)

Chinese, Mandarin (1%)

Others (approximately 18%)

 

Students to modern high-performance computers ratio 

1.4-to-1 [as of June 2016]

 

100%, with a minimum of 100 kbps of bandwidth available per student (all 173 district offices have access to high-speed fiber internet services)
 

88% (94% of those students report having wireless access at home)

 

Amount of federal e-Rate funding available to Kentucky school districts for technology and statewide fiber internet services

$40.5 million [FY 16]

 

92% of Kentucky schools participate in the statewide program, with a 2015-16 year over year growth of 24%. More than 8,000 students from 399 schools and 99 districts participated in the annual STLP State Championship. 

 

91% high school and area technology center participation in the statewide program. Students earned 8,300 professional career-ready certifications in the 2015-16 school year. Students completed 28,951 online technology-related courses. 

 

1.6 million average logins per month. Over an average 60-day period, 29,132 unique teacher and 2,535 unique administrators use IMS. In 2015-16, 219,000 students used IMS for student portfolios and common and formative assessments. An average of 23,000 students log in to the system each week. In the EDS, 304,000 formative assessments and 646,000 lesson plans created 92,000 electronic instructional resources aligned to the Kentucky Academic Standards. 

 

91% of Kentucky school districts report having a meaningful digital citizenship program in which students are learning the nine fundamental elements of safe and responsible use with online or digital tools.

 

86% of Kentucky school districts are offering online or blended courses to students.

 

91% of students in grades 6-12 who have an ILP update or complete their plans annually (more than 260,000 accounts)

 

816 (423 family resource; 267 youth services; 129 combined)

 

1,175

 

620,029

 

Number of students served in extended school services programs during the school year (not including summer programs)

161,257

 

$24.6 million

 

94

 

134

 

9,855

 

10,240