Louisville City Wire

The most represented ethnicity among Jefferson County students was white, accounting for 43.3% of the student population, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 113,240 students attending Jefferson County schools, 43.3% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 37.1%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Jefferson County schools, representing 38.6% of the student body.

Anchorage Independent Public School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 3.3% compared to the previous year.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.

School	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Marion C. Moore School	White	37.5%	2,366
Eastern High School	White	62.5%	2,203
Peace Academy	White	61.6%	2,194
Ballard High School	White	54.3%	1,986
Louisville Male High School	White	58.4%	1,965
Dupont Manual High School	White	61%	1,927
Fern Creek High School	White	39.2%	1,836
Pleasure Ridge Park High School	White	60.2%	1,783
Butler Traditional High School	White	46.5%	1,694
Atherton High School	White	65.1%	1,515
Southern High School	White	43.1%	1,507
Iroquois High School	African American	55.2%	1,474
Seneca High School	African American	40.1%	1,428
Noe Middle School	White	48.6%	1,397
Westport Middle School	White	44.1%	1,383
Fairdale High School	White	58.4%	1,290
Doss High School	African American	48.8%	1,222
Jeffersontown High School	White	42%	1,212
Crosby Middle School	White	54%	1,212
Central High Magnet Career Academy	African American	77.3%	1,191
Meyzeek Middle School	White	42%	1,182
Newburg Middle School	African American	49.9%	1,171
Valley High School	White	53%	1,165
Ramsey Middle School	White	45.1%	1,143
Farnsley Middle School	White	50.9%	1,118
Thomas Jefferson Middle School	African American	43.5%	1,110
Lassiter Middle School	White	44.7%	1,105
Pathfinder School of Innovation	White	58.4%	1,039
McFerran Preparatory Academy	African American	74.6%	1,030
Waggener High School	African American	49.8%	1,022
Kammerer Middle School	White	44.7%	1,019
Highland Middle School	African American	41.8%	1,010
Jefferson County Traditional Middle School	White	56.7%	940
Conway Middle School	White	51.3%	908
Johnson Traditional Middle School	African American	46.6%	876
Stuart Academy	African American	44%	870
Western High School	African American	68.4%	857
Shelby Academy	African American	60.8%	821
Farmer Elementary School	White	60.3%	807
Stopher Elementary School	White	68.2%	796
The Academy @ Shawnee	African American	57.8%	786
Tully Elementary School	White	65.4%	781
Carrithers Middle School	White	44.8%	779
Jeffersontown Elementary School	White	52.3%	777
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South	African American	42.5%	776
Bowen Elementary School	White	54.5%	772
Norton Elementary School	White	65.8%	770
The Brook-Kmi	White	75.3%	760
Chancey Elementary School	African American	36.1%	743
Jacob Elementary School	African American	57.5%	741
Newcomer Academy	Hispanic or Latino	53.6%	727
J. Graham Brown School	White	60.8%	720
Wheeler Elementary School	White	63.5%	702
Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary School	African American	70.1%	686
Semple Elementary School	African American	43.5%	678
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North	African American	43.3%	674
Fern Creek Elementary School	White	41.9%	673
Goldsmith Elementary School	African American	34.7%	671
Auburndale Elementary School	White	45.2%	659
Kennedy Elementary School	African American	73.5%	653
Western Middle School for the Arts	African American	61.2%	652
Barret Traditional Middle School	White	67.1%	648
Wilder Elementary School	White	51.4%	640
Lowe Elementary School	White	47.8%	625
Audubon Traditional Elementary School	White	61.2%	624
Greathouse/Shryock Traditional	White	56.7%	623
Watterson Elementary School	African American	44.4%	620
Middletown Elementary School	White	57.7%	617
Eisenhower Elementary School	White	72%	615
Trunnell Elementary School	African American	38.1%	611
Kenwood Elementary School	White	39.8%	610
Foster Traditional Academy	African American	88.2%	609
Blue Lick Elementary School	White	54.8%	608
St. Matthews Elementary School	White	56.6%	606
Blake Elementary School	White	40.1%	601
Carter Traditional Elementary School	White	57.3%	599
Chenoweth Elementary School	White	58%	598
Schaffner Traditional Elementary School	White	54.3%	597
Coral Ridge Elementary School	White	59.9%	596
The Brook-Dupont	White	66.2%	592
Rutherford Elementary School	African American	32.9%	592
Brandeis Elementary School	African American	45.4%	588
Bates Elementary School	White	62.9%	579
Cochrane Elementary School	White	37.4%	577
Dunn Elementary School	White	62.1%	575
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts	White	47.4%	574
Ackerly	White	70.1%	572
Greenwood Elementary School	White	52.5%	566
Zachary Taylor Elementary School	African American	45.1%	565
Bloom Elementary School	White	71.9%	562
Hazelwood Elementary School	White	29.9%	556
Mill Creek Elementary School	African American	78.2%	555
Luhr Elementary School	White	39.2%	549
Young Elementary School	African American	68.4%	548
Crums Lane Elementary School	African American	67.6%	547
Wilt Elementary School	White	53.9%	547
Kerrick Elementary School	White	48.6%	545
Wellington Elementary School	African American	55.4%	545
Norton Commons Elementary School	White	61.6%	542
Smyrna Elementary School	White	45.6%	529
Minor Daniels Academy	African American	72.9%	528
Hite Elementary School	White	64.1%	527
Dixie Elementary School	White	44.7%	526
Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School	African American	56.5%	524
Minors Lane Elementary School	Hispanic or Latino	43.4%	521
Wilkerson Elementary School	White	54.6%	520
Rangeland Elementary School	African American	44.9%	515
Hartstern Elementary School	White	36.6%	513
Hawthorne Elementary School	White	46.5%	510
Medora Elementary School	White	72.7%	509
Atkinson Academy	African American	56.6%	509
Klondike Lane Elementary School	White	29.2%	507
Jefferson Regional Juvenile Detention Ce	African American	71.8%	507
Indian Trail Elementary School	African American	46.9%	505
Byck Elementary School	African American	88.1%	504
Laukhuf Elementary School	White	61.4%	503
Sanders Elementary School	White	57%	498
Camp Taylor Elementary School	White	45.3%	495
Shacklette Elementary School	African American	39.5%	486
Knight Middle School	White	51.4%	481
Stonestreet Elementary School	White	63.3%	479
Cochran Elementary School	African American	54%	472
Cane Run Elementary School	African American	80.7%	466
Gutermuth Elementary School	African American	41.8%	466
Layne Elementary School	White	61.7%	459
Price Elementary School	African American	59.8%	453
Field Elementary School	White	51.3%	446
King Elementary School	African American	81.8%	446
Wheatley Elementary School	African American	85.8%	443
Engelhard Elementary School	African American	65.7%	443
Slaughter Elementary School	Hispanic or Latino	50.5%	434
Frayser Elementary School	African American	57.7%	433
The Phoenix School of Discovery	White	66.7%	426
Liberty High School	African American	64.6%	404
Johnsontown Road Elementary School	White	50.5%	402
George Unseld Early Childhood Center	African American	48%	396
Anchorage Independent Public School	White	87.7%	390
Alex R. Kennedy Elementary School	White	37%	384
Okolona Elementary School	White	35.4%	378
Maupin Elementary School	African American	89.6%	366
Duvalle Education Center	African American	89.8%	333
Portland Elementary School	African American	55.8%	328
Dawson Orman Education Center	African American	70.7%	314
Brooklawn	White	67.5%	286
Breckinridge Metropolitan High School	African American	82.2%	276
Home of the Innocents School	White	69.9%	206
Churchill Park School	White	49.2%	183
Waller-Williams Environmental	African American	68.9%	148
Louisville Day	African American	67.4%	138
Mary Jo and William MacDonald Maryhurst	White	76.6%	137
Bellewood	White	71.7%	113
Boys & Girls Haven	White	65.3%	98
St. Joseph Children's Home	White	72.5%	80
Binet School	African American	51.4%	70
Kentucky School for the Blind	White	74.3%	70
Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program	African American	38.5%	65
Western Day Treatment	African American	52.2%	46
Heuser Hearing & Language Academy	White	43.9%	41
Ahrens Educational Resource Center	African American	47.5%	40
Mary Ryan Academy	White	71.8%	39
Home of the Innocents Discovery	White	77.1%	35
U. of L. Pact Program	White	70%	10