County / FIPS 21147
McCreary County
Kentucky
McCreary County runs 4 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
4
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
427
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in McCreary County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$182.9M
Per resident
$10,831
Change since FY2021
+38%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $132M |
| 2022 | $103M |
| 2023 | $185M |
| 2024 | $217M |
| 2025 | $183M |
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. McCreary County ranks 1717th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in McCreary County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mccreary Central High School | Mccreary County | Stearns | 734 |
| Mccreary County Middle School | Mccreary County | Stearns | 605 |
| Pine Knot Elementary School | Mccreary County | Pine Knot | 825 |
| Whitley City Elementary School | Mccreary County | Whitley City | 551 |