County / FIPS 21007
Ballard County
Kentucky
Ballard County runs 5 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Kentucky has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
5
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
247
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Ballard County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$69.5M
Per resident
$8,999
Change since FY2021
+6%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $66M |
| 2022 | $61M |
| 2023 | $69M |
| 2024 | $60M |
| 2025 | $70M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Ballard County ranks 2660th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Ballard County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballard Co. Preschool/Headstart Center | Ballard County | Barlow | 110 |
| Ballard County Elementary School | Ballard County | Barlow | 467 |
| Ballard County Middle School | Ballard County | Barlow | 215 |
| Ballard Memorial High School | Ballard County | Barlow | 260 |
| Ballard County Career and Technology Ctr | Ballard County | Barlow | — |