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Owensboro Independent

Owensboro, Kentucky · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

5,049
Students enrolled
13
Public schools
367
Classroom teachers (FTE)
13.8:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 120
  • Kindergarten 406
  • Grade 1 391
  • Grade 2 431
  • Grade 3 413
  • Grade 4 352
  • Grade 5 379
  • Grade 6 357
  • Grade 7 382
  • Grade 8 372
  • Grade 9 422
  • Grade 10 355
  • Grade 11 314
  • Grade 12 354
  • Ungraded 1

By race/ethnicity

  • White 55%
  • Hispanic/Latino 16%
  • Black or African American 13%
  • Two or more races 13%
  • Asian 3%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

70% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 3,538 of 5,035 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 66%
  • Reduced-price lunch 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$15,085 spent per student on day-to-day operations Kentucky median: $13,611 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,098
  • Support services $5,022
  • Other (food service, etc.) $965

Where the money comes from

  • Local 30%
  • State 57%
  • Federal 13%

Total revenue $79.4 milliontotal spending $83.7 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: Small

Total staff (FTE)

853

District office

450 Griffith Ave, Owensboro KY 42301

County

Daviess County

Official website

NCES District ID

2104590

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About Owensboro Independent

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The mission of the Owensboro Public School District is to provide a safe and caring environment where students are engaged in quality educational experiences which foster life-long learning and the development of skills and abilities needed to succeed in our diverse society.
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