Public school / Middle
Heath Middle School
West Paducah, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210396001006
- District
- Mccracken County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Heath Middle School is a public middle school in West Paducah, Kentucky, run by Mccracken County. It enrols 410 students — the 49421st largest of 1,550 public schools in Kentucky.
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
410
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
15.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.0%
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.
Within Mccracken 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.
- 1Mccracken County High School1,999 students
- 2Lone Oak Middle School796 students
- 3Concord Elementary School614 students
- 4Reidland Elementary School587 students
- 5Lone Oak Elementary School520 students
- 6Hendron Lone Oak Elementary School489 students
- 7Heath Elementary School484 students
- 8Lone Oak Intermediate School426 students
- Enrollment−12.0%
- Teachers−6.9%
- Students per teacher0.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−24.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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