Kentucky Education

Kentucky Education

Kentucky Department of Education

Kentucky Commissioner of Education :

District/School Information

Length of School Year: A minimum of 175 school days is required by Kentucky state law.

Number of Public School Districts: There are 174 public school districts in Kentucky.

Number of Public Schools: There are 1565 public schools in Kentucky. ****

Number of Students Served in Public Schools: There are 680,089 public school students in Kentucky. ****

Number of Teachers in Public Schools: There are 41,981 public school teachers in Kentucky.****

Number of Charter Schools: There are 0 charter schools in Kentucky.

Per Pupil Spending: Kentucky spends $8,836 per pupil in public education. ****

Average Class Size: The average class size In Kentucky is 16.2 students per 1 teacher. ****

% of Title I Schools: 83.5% of schools in Kentucky are Title I Schools.****

% With Individualized Education Programs (IEP): 15.6% of students in Kentucky are on IEP's. ****

% in Limited-English Proficiency Programs: 2.1% of students in Kentucky are in limited-English Proficient Programs.****

% of Student Eligible for Free/Reduced Lunches: 54.7% of student in Kentucky schools are eligible for free/reduced lunches.****

Ethnic/Racial Student Breakdown****

White: 84.3%

Black: 11.0%

Hispanic: 3.3%

Asian/Pacific Islander: 1.3%

American Indian/Alaskan Native: 0.1%

School Assessment Data

Graduation Rate: 79.9% of all students entering high school in Kentucky graduate. **

ACT/SAT rank: 191 students per 1000 in Kentucky had a score of 25+ on the ACT or a 1780+ on the SAT. ***

8th grade NAEP assessment scores:****

Math: 282 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Kentucky. The U.S. average was 283.

Reading: 269 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Kentucky. The U.S. average was 264.

% of Students Who Attend College after High School: 60.9% of students in Kentucky go on to attend some level of college. ***

Private Schools

Number of Private Schools: There are 380 private schools in Kentucky.*

Number of Students Served in Private Schools: There are 76,134 private school students in Kentucky.*

Teacher Pay

The average teacher pay for the state of Kentucky was $48,226.67 in 2009.##

Each individual district in the state of Kentucky negotiates teacher salaries and establishes their own teacher salary schedule.

The following is an example of a teacher salary schedule in Kentucky provided by the Fayette County Public School District.

*Data courtesy of Education Bug .

**Data courtesy of ED.gov

***Data courtesy of the NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policy Making and Analysis

****Data courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics

##Average salary courtesy of Teacher Salary Info