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Martha Jane Potter Elementary School, Whitesburg, KY

CEP schoolMartha Jane Potter Elementary School is a public elementary school in Whitesburg, part of Letcher County Public Schools. It enrolled 273 students in 2024-25, with 14.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
273
Teachers (FTE)
19.0
Students per teacher
14.4
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.5. The Kentucky average across schools is 15.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.4
District14.5
Kentucky15.6
United States15.3

School details

Address
55 Kona Dr, Whitesburg, KY 41858
Phone
(606)855-7544
District
Letcher County Public Schools
County
Letcher County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Remote
NCES school ID
210336000901
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
182
Reduced-price lunch
2
Free or reduced-price lunch
18467.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification
179Students 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 Letcher 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.