Public school / Middle
Jessie M Clark Middle School
Lexington, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210186000391
- District
- Fayette County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Jessie M Clark Middle School is a public middle school in Lexington, Kentucky, run by Fayette County. It enrols 1,044 students — the 7889th 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
1,044
Teachers
69.0
Students per teacher
15.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
34.0%
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 Fayette 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.
- 1Lafayette High School2,432 students
- 2Henry Clay High School2,031 students
- 3Paul Laurence Dunbar High School1,946 students
- 4Bryan Station High School1,893 students
- 5Tates Creek High School1,734 students
- 6Frederick Douglass High School1,667 students
- 7Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School1,081 students
- 8Jessie M Clark Middle School1,044 students
- Enrollment+124.0%
- Teachers+137.9%
- Students per teacher−0.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−46.4%
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