Public school / Primary
Potter Gray Elementary
Bowling Green, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210057000103
- District
- Bowling Green Independent
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Potter Gray Elementary is a public primary school in Bowling Green, Kentucky, run by Bowling Green Independent. It enrols 424 students — the 47550th 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
424
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
18.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
31.6%
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 Bowling Green 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.
- 1Bowling Green High School1,294 students
- 2Bowling Green Junior High963 students
- 3W R Mcneill Elementary School439 students
- 4Dishman Mcginnis Elementary School430 students
- 5T C Cherry Elementary School428 students
- 6Potter Gray Elementary424 students
- 7Parker-Bennett-Curry School346 students
- 8Bowling Green Learning Center44 students
- Enrollment−9.0%
- Teachers−20.7%
- Students per teacher+21.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−50.2%
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