Russell County Schools Receive Latest State Accountability Ratings
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Kentucky's newest school accountability ratings for the 2025–2026 school year have been released for Russell County. Of the district's five schools, two earned an overall green rating and three earned yellow. The state's scale runs from blue at the top, then green, yellow, orange and red, and it weighs both current results and change since the prior year.
The green schools are Jamestown Elementary (70.7) and Russell County Middle School (68.1). At Jamestown, both main academic categories were green and improved, and students beat the state's proficiency rates in most reading and science-related subjects while matching it in math. At the middle school, proficiency rates topped the state in every tested subject. The yellow schools are Russell Springs Elementary (68.3), Salem Elementary (59.5) and Russell County High School (60.8). Russell Springs students outperformed the state in all tested subjects, but year-over-year declines lowered its ratings; it did earn blue for English learner progress. Salem's combined science, social studies and writing category was orange after a sharp drop. At the high school, the graduation rate edged up to 95.5 percent, earning green, while postsecondary readiness was yellow.
No district school was placed in a federal category calling for comprehensive or targeted support. District leaders say scores and colors capture only part of student achievement and that the results will be used along with classroom performance and other information to guide improvement work.
Why it matters
The ratings give families, teachers and board members a snapshot of how each school is doing against state benchmarks and its own past results. They may shape where the district focuses improvement efforts, such as Salem's science, social studies and writing results.
- School ratings
- Test scores
- Graduation rates
- English learners
- College and career readiness
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- How should families weigh a school's color rating alongside classroom performance and other information about student learning?
- What supports could help schools whose ratings dropped from the previous year, such as in science, social studies and writing?
- How can the district share and build on practices at schools that earned strong or improving ratings?
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