Original Research by School Decision on Home Instruction H.s.
Home Instruction H.S. in Petersburg, Kentucky, is a regular public high school serving grades nine through twelve. A straightforward look at the available data reveals that this is not a typical high school in a traditional sense. The school’s enrollment is very small. The student body is almost entirely white, with a very small number of students identifying as two or more races. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Information about students with disabilities and English learners was not available in the data we examined.
The most important thing a parent or resident needs to know about this school is that no state testing data was available for it, and the comparison tool, which looks at schools relative to others in Floyd County, found that core academic metrics like proficiency rates, graduation rates, and chronic absenteeism rates were not applicable for this entity. For a school that only serves high school grades, the absence of a graduation rate is a notable gap. Because the data does not explain why these measures are missing, a parent reading this should look into this further with the school. It is possible that the nature of this school, perhaps as a program serving students in a home-instruction or alternative setting, explains the lack of conventional assessment and outcome data, but the available records do not confirm that.
The school is a part of the Floyd County school district. We looked for information about recent district-level referendums or bonds, but found no publicly reported information to include here. The school's address is in Petersburg, Kentucky, but a closer look at the community data reveals a significant discrepancy. The community brief describes Petersburg as a very small, rural unincorporated community in Boone County, located on the Ohio River near Cincinnati. However, the school is listed under Floyd County. Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky, and Floyd County, Kentucky, are distinct and distant places. A parent considering this school should verify the school’s actual location and the district it belongs to, as the community context provided does not align with the district affiliation in the data.
The housing context associated with the school’s zip code shows a home value estimate that is notably below the state and national benchmarks, having also experienced a decline over the past year. This gives a picture of a more affordable local market, but one that has seen recent downward pressure on home values.
The bottom line is that this is a very small high school for which the standard measures of academic performance and student outcomes are absent from the data available to us. Any parent or resident considering this school would need to seek direct information from the school or the Floyd County district office to understand what kind of instruction is provided, what students’ academic pathways look like, and what the graduation prospects are for the enrolled students. Without that information, it is not possible to characterize the academic pathway or student support environment.
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