NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools KY

Best-Resourced Schools in Pikeville, KY

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

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11
Schools
5,192
Students
38.6/100
Avg Resource Index
16.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pikeville has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pikeville 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Pikeville's 11 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 31-point gap between Pike County Day Treatment and Pike County Central High School shows the range hidden by Pikeville'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 43%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
39th percentile
Teacher staffing
35th percentile

Valley Elementary School accounts for 16.3% of all Pikeville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Pikeville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Pikeville school enrollment varies 60× across entities

Pikeville school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 844 students (highest), a spread of 830 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Pikeville reports 58.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Pikeville student-teacher ratio is 16.8:1 — 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 Pikeville is typically wider than the Pikeville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Pike County Day Treatment 58
2. Northpoint Academy 55
3. Pike County Virtual Academy 50
4. Pikeville Elementary School 45
5. Pikeville High School 43
6. Valley Elementary School 33
7. Mullins Elementary School 29
8. Johns Creek Elementary School 29
9. Millard School 29
10. Pike County Central High School 27
11. Shelby Valley High School 27

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Which Pikeville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pike County Day Treatment has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pikeville schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pikeville, KY? ▼

Pikeville has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,192 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.8:1.

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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.