Public school / Middle
Paducah Middle School
Paducah, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210465001144
- District
- Paducah Independent
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paducah Middle School is a public middle school in Paducah, Kentucky, run by Paducah Independent. It enrols 652 students — the 22495th 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
652
Teachers
40.0
Students per teacher
16.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
69.2%
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 Paducah Independent
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.
- 1Paducah Tilghman High School878 students
- 2Paducah Middle School652 students
- 3Clark Elementary School617 students
- 4Morgan Elementary School380 students
- 5Mcnabb Elementary School322 students
- 6Paducah Head Start Preschool233 students
- 7Choices Educational Center37 students
- Enrollment+39.9%
- Teachers+37.9%
- Students per teacher+7.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+9.1%
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