Tutor Key is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States [1] about 4.5 miles northeast of Paintsville.

On July 3, 1897, the first post office opened in what is now Tutor Key.

Beginning in the late 1930s, Mingo began having problems with mail being accidentally sent to Wingo, which is a city in Graves County, Kentucky.

[3] As of the census of 2000,[4] there were 408 people, 171 households, and 130 families living in the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) for Tutor Key's ZIP code (41263).

Since there are no schools located in Tutor Key, most students attend:[5]