Memorial Elementary School, Hardyville KY

Original Research by School Decision on Memorial Elementary School

Memorial Elementary School sits on the Jackson Highway in Hardyville, an unincorporated rural crossroads in Hart County, Kentucky. This is a small public school that runs from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, a setup that lets children stay in one building from their earliest school years through the end of middle school. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it belongs to the Hart County district. Because it serves no high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. The school’s enrollment is small and almost entirely white, with a modest share of students who are Hispanic, Black, or of two or more races. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a high-poverty context.

The testing picture is a mix of reports and gaps. For third and fourth grade math, the share of students scoring proficient or above was moderate, then dropped back in fifth grade to about the same level. Seventh and eighth grade math results were suppressed, so there is no usable data for those grades. In English language arts, the pattern varies by grade. Fourth grade produced the strongest result, with about half of students reaching proficiency. Fifth grade matched that. Third, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade came in lower, with the eighth grade result notably soft. Science proficiency was available for fourth grade and was moderate; the seventh grade science result was suppressed. Social studies proficiency, tested in fifth and eighth grade, was below the midpoint in both, with the eighth grade result the weaker of the two. A parent looking at this pattern may want to ask the school how it supports reading and math skills in the upper middle grades, where the available data shows a dip.

Hardyville itself is a very small community with no downtown, no parks or library in the immediate area, and no major employers identified in publicly available records. The built environment is rural residential strung along the highway. Civic amenities are accessed in Munfordville, the county seat, which is a short drive away. Housing is very affordable relative to national benchmarks, and the area shows minimal growth, with a small, stable housing stock. There were no recent district-level changes found in publicly reported sources, so a parent or resident would need to contact the district directly for updates on facilities, staffing, or programming.

The school’s context matters for understanding what it offers. It serves a wide grade span in a rural area with a high poverty rate among its families, and its testing data shows uneven results across subjects and grades, with some results suppressed. A family considering Memorial Elementary would want to look closely at how the school addresses literacy and math in the middle grades, where the numbers are softer, and how it supports students who may arrive with varying readiness. The setting is quiet and rural, with a small student body and a single school building that covers a long stretch of childhood and adolescence. It fits a family that wants a close-knit, familiar environment in an unincorporated community where most school and civic needs are met in the next town over.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 338%

School 38% · District 30% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 445%

School 45% · District 28% · ▲ 17 pts above district

even with state median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 42% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 326%

School 26% · District 36% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 46% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 46% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 48% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 44% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 42% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median

Science

Grade 440%

School 40% · District 34% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 37% · ▲ 1 pts above district

even with state median

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 38% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median

This schoolHart 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.