Public school / High
Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement
Mount Vernon, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210507001906
- District
- Rockcastle County
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement is a public high school in Mount Vernon, Kentucky, run by Rockcastle County. It enrols 31 students — the 93290th 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
31
Teachers
4.0
Students per teacher
7.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
80.6%
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 Rockcastle 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.
- 1Rockcastle County High School819 students
- 2Mt. Vernon Elementary608 students
- 3Rockcastle County Middle School578 students
- 4Brodhead Elementary School478 students
- 5Roundstone Elementary School247 students
- 6Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement31 students
- Enrollment−93.3%
- Teachers−86.2%
- Students per teacher−48.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+27.0%
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