Public school / High
Thomas Nelson High School
Bardstown, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210441002324
- District
- Nelson County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Thomas Nelson High School is a public high school in Bardstown, Kentucky, run by Nelson County. It enrols 669 students — the 21288th 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
669
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
20.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
38.1%
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 Nelson 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.
- 1Nelson County High School784 students
- 2Foster Heights Elementary School674 students
- 3Thomas Nelson High School669 students
- 4Coxs Creek Elementary School446 students
- 5Old Kentucky Home Middle School368 students
- 6Boston School361 students
- 7Bloomfield Middle School352 students
- 8The New Haven School345 students
- Enrollment+43.6%
- Teachers+10.3%
- Students per teacher+37.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−40.0%
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