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Paducah Tilghman High School, Paducah, KY

CEP schoolPaducah Tilghman High School is a public high school in Paducah, part of Paducah Independent School District. It enrolled 860 students in 2024-25, with 15.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
860
Teachers (FTE)
56.0
Students per teacher
15.4
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.0 higher than the district figure of 14.4. The Kentucky average across schools is 15.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.4
District14.4
Kentucky15.6
United States15.3

School details

Address
2400 Washington St, Paducah, KY 42003
Phone
(270)444-5650
District
Paducah Independent School District
County
McCracken County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
210465001154
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
489
Reduced-price lunch
6
Free or reduced-price lunch
49557.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification
485Students 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

High schools elsewhere in Paducah

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.