Public school / High
Madison Southern High School
Berea, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210372001594
- District
- Madison County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Madison Southern High School is a public high school in Berea, Kentucky, run by Madison County. It enrols 1,210 students — the 5818th 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
1,210
Teachers
68.0
Students per teacher
17.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
50.4%
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 Madison 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.
- 1Madison Central High School2,226 students
- 2Madison Southern High School1,210 students
- 3Madison Middle School670 students
- 4Kingston Elementary School618 students
- 5Kirksville Elementary School563 students
- 6Clark Moores Middle School546 students
- 7Silver Creek Elementary School512 students
- 8B. Michael Caudill Middle School479 students
- Enrollment+159.7%
- Teachers+134.5%
- Students per teacher+17.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−20.6%
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