Elementary · Kentucky
Whitley City Elementary School
Free meals for allWhitley City Elementary School, a public elementary school in Whitley City, Kentucky: grades pre-k–5, 547 students, 15.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of McCreary County.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 547
- Teachers (FTE)
- 36.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.2
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 61% of elementary schools in Kentucky
Median 14.6 · 719 schools compared
More students per teacher than 57% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 76% of elementary schools in Kentucky
Median 436 · 720 schools compared
Larger than 74% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote rural area
- Run by
- McCreary County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with McCreary County.
Location
- Address
- 2819 N Hwy 27, Whitley City, KY 42653
- Phone
- (606)376-2690
- County
- McCreary County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Pine Knot PrimaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–2 | 425 | 14.7 |
Pine Knot IntermediateFree meals for all | 3–5 | 352 | 13.0 |
Winfield ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–8 | 198 | — |
Burnside Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 414 | 12.9 |
| Pre-K–5 | 756 | — | |
Whitley Central Intermediate SchoolFree meals for all | 3–6 | 456 | 15.2 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
NCES 210399001021