The top reported proficiency rate is 30% in Math. The lowest is 22% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Paris Elementary School
Paris Elementary School serves students from kindergarten through fifth grade as part of the Paris Independent district, a small public school system in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The school is a regular elementary school, not a charter or magnet, and it operates as a neighborhood school for families living in and around the city of Paris.
Academic performance on the Kentucky Summative Assessment places this school toward the lower end relative to the only other district in Bourbon County. The school’s overall proficiency rate across tested subjects and grades falls in the bottom quartile of that very small set. In math, the share of students scoring proficient or above ranged from roughly a third of third-graders to about a fifth of fifth-graders. In English language arts, proficiency was in the mid-twenties for each grade. Social studies, tested only in fifth grade, showed a similar rate, with about one in five students meeting the proficiency threshold. Science results for fourth grade were suppressed in the available data, so no public assessment picture exists for that subject. A family looking at these results should weigh them against the school’s student support context and may want to ask the school directly about academic interventions and how it tracks growth for students who are not yet at the proficient level.
The student body is moderately sized for an elementary school and reflects the community’s racial and economic diversity. A substantial share of students qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a marker of household income that is notably above state averages. Racially and ethnically, the school is roughly half white, with Black students making up a significant minority, Hispanic students a slightly smaller but still notable share, and a sizable group of students identifying as two or more races. The school also enrolls a small number of American Indian or Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. Data on the share of students with disabilities or who are English learners was not available, which is an information gap a parent might want to fill directly with the school.
Paris itself is a small historic city that serves as the Bourbon County seat, with a downtown core of 19th-century commercial buildings and civic anchors such as the Hopewell Museum, the Paris-Bourbon County Library, and Duncan Tavern. The local economy blends Thoroughbred horse farms, agriculture, and some manufacturing, and the city is part of the Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area. Housing values in the area are moderate, and rental prices are below the cost of a typical mortgage, making the community relatively affordable by national standards. The city saw population growth in recent decades followed by stabilization. The school is located on South Main Street, on the southern edge of town, and the district’s campus layout is not detailed in available records, but the presence of two separate school districts suggests multiple school sites outside the immediate downtown.
No recent district-level changes—such as curriculum shifts, boundary adjustments, or tax referendums—were found in publicly reported sources, so this appears to be a stable operating context without major upheaval. The school does not report program offerings like arts or gifted tracks in the available data, and staffing and discipline records are also absent from this profile. For a parent or resident, Paris Elementary presents a clear picture of a school serving a high-need student population in a small-city setting, with academic outcomes that are an area of concern and that would benefit from a direct conversation with school leadership about instructional focus and support structures.
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