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Pikeville, Kentucky - 2 schools
An equity score of 39/100 ranks Pikeville Independent #111 of 171 districts in Kentucky (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,395 per pupil, Pikeville Independent ranks #62 of 171 Kentucky districts by per-pupil spending (Kentucky districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,166
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,395
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pikeville Independent operates 2 public schools serving 1,166 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kentucky. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined 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 Pike County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,395 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 37.8% local, 45.0% state, and 17.3% 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 39/100, ranked #111 of 171 in Kentucky against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (8 AP courses district-wide), a 564.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 15.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.3% White, 2.5% Asian, 2.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pikeville Elementary School, enrolling 611 students (54% of the district's total enrollment).
Pikeville Elementary School accounts for 52.4% of all Pikeville Independent student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pikeville Independent a distant remainder — means Pikeville Independent-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Pikeville Independent student-counselor ratio is 565:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Pikeville Independent chronic absenteeism rate is 15.5% — 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 Pikeville Independent is typically wider than the Pikeville Independent-aggregate figure suggests.