Public school / Middle
West Carter Middle School
Olive Hill, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210102001661
- District
- Carter County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Carter Middle School is a public middle school in Olive Hill, Kentucky, run by Carter County. It enrols 366 students — the 56073rd 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
366
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
65.3%
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 Carter 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.
- 1East Carter County High School729 students
- 2Prichard Elementary School635 students
- 3West Carter County High School522 students
- 4East Carter Middle School505 students
- 5Olive Hill Elementary School381 students
- 6West Carter Middle School366 students
- 7Heritage Elementary School349 students
- 8Tygart Creek Elementary School342 students
- Enrollment−21.5%
- Teachers−20.7%
- Students per teacher+4.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+2.9%
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