Crossroads Elementary School, Cold Spring KY

Original Research by School Decision on Crossroads Elementary School

Crossroads Elementary School sits in Cold Spring, a primarily residential suburb in Campbell County, Kentucky, part of the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area. The town is auto-oriented, built along the US 27 commercial corridor, with no traditional downtown. Civic life centers on the City Building along that highway, and the public library branch is here, but the high school students attend is in neighboring Alexandria. This is a commuter community, with residents likely traveling into the broader metro area for work in health care, finance, or public administration. The housing market reflects a moderately priced suburb: home values sit a bit above the state average but below the national one, and rents are high enough that buying a home would cost somewhat more each month than renting, a typical trade-off in this part of the Ohio River region.

Crossroads serves students from preschool through fifth grade. Enrollment is on the larger side for an elementary school, and the student body is predominantly white, with a small share of students who are multiracial and very small shares of Asian, Hispanic, and Black students. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker that the school serves a population with considerable economic need. The school is part of the Campbell County district, and the district did not appear to have recent major changes that would shift a family’s decision at this level.

On the Kentucky Summative Assessment, Crossroads shows a mixed picture across tested subjects and grades. In math, the share of students scoring proficient or above varied by grade, landing around the middle among the district’s elementary schools when averaged across all subjects. In reading, proficiency rates were similarly mixed, with one grade level performing notably higher than the others, though still below a majority reaching the bar. Science and social studies are tested in only one grade each; in both cases, fewer than half of students met the proficiency standard. The school’s overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among the six districts in Campbell County, but the gap between the top and bottom schools in that group is wide. A parent looking at these results should know that while Crossroads is not at the top of the county, it is also not at the bottom—it sits in the middle of the pack, with some grades and subjects stronger than others.

Because the school serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report. Civil rights data and information on discipline, chronic absenteeism, and staffing were not available in the data provided, so a reader interested in those areas would want to follow up with the school directly.

For a family considering Cold Spring, Crossroads Elementary offers a straightforward suburban elementary experience in a district that is the main option in town. The school is a regular public school with no charter or magnet designation; its academic profile is solidly in the middle range for Campbell County, with room for a parent to want to understand how their child’s particular grade and subject needs would be met. The economic diversity of the student body is notable, and the school’s size means that class sections are likely numerous enough to allow some peer grouping. The town itself is a quiet, car-dependent suburb without a walkable center, and the high school is a drive away in Alexandria. That trade-off—a stable residential setting with modest commute times to Cincinnati—is the context a family should weigh alongside the school’s academic numbers.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 62% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 437%

School 37% · District 56% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 61% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 64% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 444%

School 44% · District 62% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 67% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Science

Grade 434%

School 34% · District 46% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Social studies

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 47% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

This schoolCampbell County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income22%Higher-income61%39 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income27%Higher-income68%41 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income47%Higher-income62%15 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income41%Higher-income64%23 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income24%Higher-income53%29 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income38%Higher-income57%19 pp gap