Royal Spring Middle School, Georgetown KY

Original Research by School Decision on Royal Spring Middle School

Royal Spring Middle School serves the Georgetown community as one of three middle schools within Scott County Schools, a district that has been expanding to keep pace with the area’s sustained population growth. The school enrolls students in sixth through eighth grades on a regular public school model.

The student body of Royal Spring Middle School draws from Georgetown, a mid-sized city in the Bluegrass region whose economy is dominated by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned Toyota plant in the United States. The plant’s arrival drove a dramatic increase in population that has continued for decades, and the district has responded by opening a new high school, a new elementary school, and expanding an existing middle school in recent years. Georgetown blends historic downtown fabric, mid-century suburban commercial strips, and newer subdivisions; the city is bisected by I-75 and sits north of Lexington on the corridor toward Cincinnati.

The school’s student composition reflects the community it serves. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Black students, Hispanic students, and students who identify as two or more races; Asian students and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students also attend in smaller numbers. The school regularly serves sixth through eighth graders, and the enrollment is distributed fairly evenly across those three grade levels.

State assessment results from the most recent year give a picture of student performance that varies by subject and grade. In English language arts, the school shows a split pattern. Sixth and seventh graders posted results that place them in a solid range, with the share of students reaching proficiency higher than what the eighth graders achieved that year. In math, the pattern is more level across all three grades, with the share reaching proficiency in the middle range and showing a slight downward step from sixth to eighth grade. Science is tested in seventh grade only; the share of students reaching proficiency there is lower than in the other subjects. Social studies is tested in eighth grade only, and that result falls in a similar lower range. A parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand how the school supports students in science and social studies and what the transition from middle to high school looks like academically.

Growth in Georgetown, driven by the auto manufacturing industry and the I-75 corridor, has been a defining community feature for decades. The district has added school capacity in response, and the housing market reflects that demand. Home values in the area are above the state benchmark, and rents have risen as well. The area’s unemployment rate sits close to the national figure.

For a family considering Royal Spring Middle School, the profile is that of a regular public middle school in a growing, economically active city where the school’s reading and math results are strongest in the early middle-school years. The school operates within a district that has invested in new facilities as enrollment has grown. Because this is a middle school, high-school outcomes such as graduation rate and college-going measures are not applicable here. The comparison set for this school within Scott County is limited, and no formal district-level proficiency index comparison was possible, so the primary frame for understanding this school is its own state assessment results and the community context of Georgetown itself.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 647%

School 47% · District 45% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 47% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 48% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 660%

School 60% · District 64% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 765%

School 65% · District 62% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 54% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median

Science

Grade 734%

School 34% · District 35% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 49% · ▼ 11 pts below district

even with state median

This schoolScott 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 6Lower-income50%Higher-income68%18 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income51%Higher-income76%25 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income36%Higher-income52%16 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income35%Higher-income56%21 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income31%Higher-income54%23 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income30%Higher-income50%20 pp gap