NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools KY

Best-Resourced Schools in Bardstown, KY

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12 public K-12 schools in Bardstown from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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12
Schools
5,624
Students
41.1/100
Avg Resource Index
16.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bardstown has more public-school enrollment than 60% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bardstown sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Bardstown's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 53-point gap between The Academy at Horizons and Bardstown Early Childhood Center shows the range hidden by Bardstown's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 40%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
51st percentile
Teacher staffing
38th percentile

Bardstown Elementary School accounts for 15.1% of all Bardstown public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bardstown-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bardstown school enrollment varies 27× across entities

Bardstown school enrollment ranges from 31 students (lowest) to 847 students (highest), a spread of 816 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bardstown student-teacher ratio is 16.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Bardstown is typically wider than the Bardstown-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. The Academy at Horizons 74
2. Foster Heights Elementary School 55
3. Bardstown Elementary School 47
4. Bardstown Primary School 44
5. Bardstown High School 40
6. Thomas Nelson High School 39
7. Bardstown Middle School 37
8. Old Kentucky Home Middle School 36
9. Nelson County High School 35
10. Bardstown Alternative School 33
11. Nelson County Early Learning Center 32
12. Bardstown Early Childhood Center 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bardstown

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Bardstown Alternative School 58.2/100
  2. 2 Bardstown Middle School 55.7/100
  3. 3 Bardstown Early Childhood Center 55.4/100
  4. 4 Bardstown High School 54.1/100
  5. 5 Bardstown Primary School 54.1/100

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Which Bardstown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

The Academy at Horizons has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bardstown schools in this federal-data comparison at 74/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bardstown, KY? ▼

Bardstown has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,624 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.