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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Cardinal Valley Elementary School, Lexington, KY

CEP schoolCardinal Valley Elementary School is a public elementary school in Lexington, part of Fayette County Public Schools. It enrolled 643 students in 2024-25, with 12.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
643
Teachers (FTE)
53.0
Students per teacher
12.1
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 1.7 lower than the district figure of 13.8. The Kentucky average across schools is 15.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.1
District13.8
Kentucky15.6
United States15.3

School details

Address
218 Mandalay Rd, Lexington, KY 40504
Phone
(859)381-3340
District
Fayette County Public Schools
County
Fayette County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
210186000392
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
408
Reduced-price lunch
13
Free or reduced-price lunch
42165.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
381Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Fayette County Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.