Chandlers Elementary School, Russellville KY

Original Research by School Decision on Chandlers Elementary School

Chandlers Elementary School serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Russellville, Kentucky, as a regular public school within the Logan County district. The school covers the full span of elementary and middle school years under one roof, meaning a child who starts here in pre-K can stay through eighth grade before moving on to a high school elsewhere in the county.

On Kentucky’s state assessments, proficiency rates vary notably by grade and subject. In math, the share of students meeting the proficient or above threshold rises from around a third in third grade to nearly half in eighth grade, with the middle grades falling somewhere in between. Reading and language arts follow a similar pattern: the strongest performance appears in eighth grade, where a solid majority of students scored proficient or above, while the lower elementary grades and seventh grade show weaker results. Science proficiency is low for both tested grades, fourth and seventh. In social studies, fifth grade has a very low proficiency rate, but eighth grade comes back to roughly where eighth-grade math lands. Overall, the school’s proficiency index ranks above the midpoint among the two districts in Logan County, meaning it sits between the county’s higher and lower performer. A parent may want to ask the school about what drives the variation between grade levels and whether there are targeted supports for subjects and grades where results are lower.

The student body is about 485 children. The great majority of students are white, with small shares of Hispanic, Black, and multiracial students. Just over half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker that a substantial share of families have moderate to low incomes. Data on students with disabilities and English learners are not available in the source materials, so a parent who needs that information should request it directly from the school.

Russellville, the county seat, sits in a largely agricultural area with some manufacturing, including a large aluminum plant that is the area’s top employer. The town’s historic downtown centers on a courthouse square, and several homes are on the National Register. Housing values are below the state and national medians, consistent with a rural small-town market. The district has recently invested in a 1:1 technology initiative placing a device in every student’s hands and approved renovation projects across multiple schools, so Chandlers Elementary likely benefits from those facility upgrades and the digital shift.

No data were available on disciplinary incidents, course access, staffing ratios, or chronic absenteeism, so those areas cannot be described here. Because the school serves only through eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. Similarly, the source material did not include details on special programs, magnet or charter status (the school is a regular public non-charter), or Title I status.

For a family considering the school, the picture is of a small-town K-8 school with clear strengths in eighth-grade outcomes, especially in reading and social studies, and weaker areas in early-grade math and reading and in science across the board. The district’s technology push and capital investments suggest active attention to resources. The peer environment is predominantly white and economically mixed. The housing market is affordable relative to the state, and the community is compact with traditional civic anchors. Families wanting to understand how the school supports students in the grades and subjects where proficiency is lower will want to speak with the principal or visit a grade-level team meeting to see the approaches in place.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 51% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 427%

School 27% · District 34% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 39% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 51% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 50% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 55% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 51% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 37% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 43% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median

Grade 651%

School 51% · District 58% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median

Grade 730%

School 30% · District 46% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median

Grade 864%

School 64% · District 50% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median

Science

Grade 427%

School 27% · District 29% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 721%

School 21% · District 30% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median

Social studies

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 31% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 9 pts above state median

This schoolLogan 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-income20%Higher-income56%36 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income21%Higher-income47%26 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income23%Higher-income25%2 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income50%Higher-income52%2 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income21%Higher-income42%21 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income52%Higher-income80%28 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income30%Higher-income48%18 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income29%Higher-income47%18 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income32%Higher-income65%33 pp gap