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Danville, Kentucky - 6 schools
An equity score of 68/100 ranks Danville Independent #40 of 171 districts in Kentucky (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,610 per pupil, Danville Independent ranks #27 of 171 Kentucky districts by per-pupil spending (Kentucky districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,836
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$14,610
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Danville Independent operates 6 public schools serving 1,836 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kentucky. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 1 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Boyle County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,610 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 171 Kentucky districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kentucky compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 33.5% local, 46.9% state, and 19.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 68/100, ranked #40 of 171 in Kentucky against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (17 AP courses district-wide), a 374:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 23.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.6% White, 12.7% African American, 11.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School, with a diversity index of 67.4/100.
Its largest campus is Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School, enrolling 520 students (29% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Sunrise Academy, at 27 students, a 19x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School accounts for 28.3% of all Danville Independent student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Danville Independent-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Danville Independent school enrollment varies 19× across entities
Danville Independent school enrollment ranges from 27 students (lowest) to 520 students (highest), a spread of 493 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Danville Independent has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 63.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Danville Independent student-counselor ratio is 374:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Danville Independent chronic absenteeism rate is 23.8% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Danville Independent is typically wider than the Danville Independent-aggregate figure suggests.