Feds Creek Elementary School, Fedscreek KY

Original Research by School Decision on Feds Creek Elementary School

Feds Creek Elementary School serves pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in the rural, unincorporated coal town of Fedscreek in eastern Kentucky’s Pike County. The school is part of the Pike County School District and sits on Feds Creek Road, a narrow valley road typical of the Appalachian setting. The community is small and extremely remote, with a population density of just a few dozen people per square mile. The post office and the elementary school itself are the only civic institutions a resident will find in town; there is no downtown, no public library, and no commercial corridor. Coal mining, chiefly the nearby Fedscreek Surface Mine, remains the historic and continuing economic anchor. The area is overwhelmingly White and older than state and national averages. Population has been declining in recent years, housing vacancy is elevated, and unemployment is high. No major development projects are in evidence.

Feds Creek Elementary enrolls a relatively small student body across grades PK through 8. Nearly all students identify as White, with a very small share identifying as two or more races. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, marking a high level of economic need. Special-population data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about how those students are served.

State assessment results are available for the 2024-25 school year, and they show a mixed picture by grade and subject. In math, third-grade students had a proficiency rate in the mid range, fifth-grade students were lower, seventh-grade students performed notably better with about two-thirds proficient, and eighth-grade students were again lower. Results for fourth and sixth grade were suppressed, likely due to small group sizes. In English language arts, third and fourth graders both had a proficiency rate in the mid range, fifth graders improved to above half of students proficient, sixth and seventh graders showed a share of proficiency around two-thirds, and eighth graders declined to below half. Science results for fourth and seventh grade were suppressed. In social studies, the one reported result for eighth graders showed a majority of students proficient. Across all tested subjects and grades, the school’s overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile relative to the other two districts in Pike County. This comparison set is very small, so a single school can shift position meaningfully, but the pattern suggests that academic performance tends to be stronger in the middle grades than in the early elementary or upper elementary years. A parent may want to ask the school about what instructional supports are available for struggling readers and math students in the earlier grades.

Because the school serves only PK through 8, there is no high school graduation rate to report. Students who live in Fedscreek will transition to a Pike County high school after eighth grade. The district brief turned up no recent changes of lasting impact, so a reader should treat the district context as stable absent further inquiry.

This is a school for a family that values a small, rural, close-knit setting where the school is one of the few gathering places in a very isolated community. The academic profile is uneven, with pockets of solid performance in the middle grades, but overall proficiency places it behind the county’s other districts on the state assessments that are available. The economic realities of the community are challenging, and a family should expect that the school’s resources may reflect those constraints. For a parent trying to decide, the key questions are how the school addresses early literacy and math gaps, what middle school program it offers, and what high school options lie ahead.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 56% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 54% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 34 pts below county median

Grade 769%

School 69% · District 50% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 47% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 58% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 436%

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

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Grade 555%

School 55% · District 68% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 664%

School 64% · District 60% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 769%

School 69% · District 58% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 52% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Social studies

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 47% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

This schoolPike 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.