High Schools in McCreary County

McCreary County, Kentucky has only one high school, McCreary Central High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school has faced declining performance in recent years, dropping from a rank of 140 out of 271 Kentucky high schools in 2021-2022 to 164 out of 276 schools in 2022-2023. With a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger, McCreary Central High School ranks 183 out of 290 high schools in the state for the 2023-2024 school year.

Academically, McCreary Central High School struggles to meet state averages on various assessments. For example, the school's proficiency rates in ACT Mathematics (12%) and KSA Mathematics for 10th grade (28%) are significantly lower than the state averages of 30% and 36%, respectively. This underperformance may be linked to the high percentage (77.66%) of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.

Despite the school's challenges, its 4-year graduation rate of 93.6% is slightly above the state average. However, the school's student-teacher ratio of 15:1 is slightly higher than the state average, and its per-student spending of $10,557 for the 2018-2019 school year was also slightly higher than the state average. These factors suggest that resource allocation and utilization may be areas that warrant further investigation to address the school's academic performance issues.