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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Harlan County High School

Baxter, Kentucky

NCES ID
210254002213
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Harlan County High School is a public high school in Baxter, Kentucky, run by Harlan County. It enrols 997 students — the 8710th largest of 1,550 public schools in Kentucky.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

997students

8710th nationally, tied with 23

Teachers

66.0FTE

7675th nationally, tied with 267

Students per teacher

15.1students

48544th nationally, tied with 918

Free or reduced-price lunch

80.4%percent

21736th nationally, tied with 93

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Harlan County

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Harlan County High School997 students
  2. 2Cumberland Elementary School449 students
  3. 3Wallins Elementary School386 students
  4. 4Rosspoint Elementary School354 students
  5. 5Evarts Elementary School340 students
  6. 6James A. Cawood Elementary307 students
  7. 7Black Mountain Elementary School280 students
  8. 8Cawood Elementary School205 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Kentucky median across 1,550 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+113.9%
  • Teachers+127.6%
  • Students per teacher−0.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+26.7%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.