Public school / Middle
South Hopkins Middle School
Nortonville, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210286001499
- District
- Hopkins County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Hopkins Middle School is a public middle school in Nortonville, Kentucky, run by Hopkins County. It enrols 365 students — the 56232nd 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
365
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
13.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
58.6%
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 Hopkins 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.
- 1Madisonville North Hopkins High School1,189 students
- 2Hopkins County Central High School774 students
- 3Browning Springs Middle School499 students
- 4James Madison Middle School494 students
- 5Pride Elementary School475 students
- 6Hanson Elementary School435 students
- 7Southside Elementary School382 students
- 8Grapevine Elementary School365 students
- Enrollment−21.7%
- Teachers−6.9%
- Students per teacher−11.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−7.6%
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