Enrollment Analysis: African American students comprised 37.2% of Jefferson County's student body in 2022-23 school year

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

By Louisville City Wire

Jul 12, 2024

There were 41,698 African American students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.5% increase from the 41,497 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Jefferson County welcomed a total of 112,057 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 37.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 165 schools in Jefferson County, Marion C. Moore School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 934 students, making up 34.4% of the school's total student body.

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.

Ethnicities in Jefferson County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Jefferson County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Anchorage Independent Public School	1.5%	411
Camp Taylor Elementary School	24.8%	533
Cane Run Elementary School	72.3%	470
Eastern High School	23.8%	2,240
Fairdale Elementary School	15.2%	650
Fern Creek Elementary School	31.5%	816
Fern Creek High School	39.7%	1,902
Greathouse/Shryock Traditional	17%	624
Greenwood Elementary School	33.7%	498
Tully Elementary School	18.6%	851
Atherton High School	21.5%	1,542
The Brook-Dupont	22.2%	418
The Brook-Kmi	13.6%	634
Medora Elementary School	11.8%	482
Middletown Elementary School	22.5%	609
Okolona Elementary School	30.9%	414
Boys & Girls Haven	24.1%	58
St. Joseph Children's Home	15.7%	70
Liberty High School	58.7%	184
Southern High School	30.4%	1,596
Valley High School	35.9%	1,076
Waller-Williams Environmental	63%	119
Dawson Orman Education Center	69.8%	325
Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School	57.6%	314
Barret Traditional Middle School	30.8%	653
Newburg Middle School	43.3%	1,072
Audubon Traditional Elementary School	32%	637
Butler Traditional High School	53.6%	1,440
Chenoweth Elementary School	28%	533
Louisville Male High School	41%	2,003
Hawthorne Elementary School	16%	493
Farnsley Middle School	37.9%	1,112
Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program	63.5%	74
Waggener High School	47.6%	1,061
Bates Elementary School	21.5%	604
Fairdale High School	19.5%	1,508
Kenwood Elementary School	25%	624
Coral Ridge Elementary School	14.1%	629
Goldsmith Elementary School	32.2%	702
Schaffner Traditional Elementary School	46.8%	611
St. Matthews Elementary School	25.1%	609
Jeffersontown High School	38.8%	1,100
Wilkerson Elementary School	28.6%	651
Wilder Elementary School	33.1%	628
Duvalle Education Center	86.1%	310
Stonestreet Elementary School	15.6%	519
Watterson Elementary School	42%	597
Seneca High School	40.3%	1,552
Pleasure Ridge Park High School	33.2%	1,642
Indian Trail Elementary School	45.6%	629
Westport Middle School	34.6%	1,354
Zachary Taylor Elementary School	43.8%	370
Kerrick Elementary School	39.1%	435
Rangeland Elementary School	45.5%	528
Dixie Elementary School	34.9%	418
Cochrane Elementary School	26.6%	583
Western High School	64.9%	1,036
Sanders Elementary School	38.1%	478
Smyrna Elementary School	25.3%	612
Thomas Jefferson Middle School	34.4%	1,082
Blue Lick Elementary School	24%	575
Crums Lane Elementary School	71.4%	412
Bowen Elementary School	15.2%	756
Hite Elementary School	16.2%	481
Norton Elementary School	13.1%	758
Shacklette Elementary School	39.2%	487
Minors Lane Elementary School	25.2%	429
Doss High School	50.1%	1,125
Chancey Elementary School	36.7%	649
Slaughter Elementary School	28.8%	441
Trunnell Elementary School	44%	557
Ballard High School	27.8%	2,131
Johnsontown Road Elementary School	32.8%	387
Luhr Elementary School	29.6%	594
Wheeler Elementary School	23.9%	657
Western Day Treatment	43.5%	23
Gutermuth Elementary School	40.1%	431
Wellington Elementary School	53.6%	478
Wilt Elementary School	23.3%	583
Crosby Middle School	33.2%	1,148
Hartstern Elementary School	33.5%	588
U. of L. Pact Program	15%	20
Layne Elementary School	25.9%	475
Auburndale Elementary School	26.6%	670
Price Elementary School	52.4%	511
Breckinridge Metropolitan High School	77%	235
Eisenhower Elementary School	17.8%	636
Lassiter Middle School	26.3%	1,112
Klondike Lane Elementary School	29.8%	524
Louisville Day	73.3%	15
Stuart Academy	42.7%	1,334
Laukhuf Elementary School	23.9%	714
Lowe Elementary School	14.8%	613
Mill Creek Elementary School	77.6%	531
Blake Elementary School	25.9%	630
Marion C. Moore School	34.4%	2,715
Dunn Elementary School	19.7%	529
Kammerer Middle School	38.3%	801
Knight Middle School	27.6%	529
Conway Middle School	40.6%	818
J. Graham Brown School	21.4%	742
Jeffersontown Elementary School	27.1%	763
Carrithers Middle School	33.7%	661
Alex R. Kennedy Elementary School	30.4%	424
Central High Magnet Career Academy	73.4%	1,233
Wheatley Elementary School	86.3%	379
Binet School	63%	46
Atkinson Academy	64.8%	378
Newcomer Academy	17.4%	1,445
W.E.B. Dubois Academy	86.5%	594
Mary Jo and William MacDonald Maryhurst	15.7%	127
Dupont Manual High School	18.7%	1,935
The Phoenix School of Discovery	21.4%	412
Minor Daniels Academy	72.4%	496
Stopher Elementary School	11%	794
Farmer Elementary School	19.7%	809
Ramsey Middle School	39.1%	1,141
Bellewood	14.3%	21
Brooklawn	19.2%	120
Westport Early Childhood Center	29.2%	315
Bloom Elementary School	7.1%	534
Engelhard Elementary School	68%	347
Byck Elementary School	86.7%	323
Field Elementary School	24.6%	459
Brandeis Elementary School	50.8%	476
Foster Traditional Academy	88.4%	631
Frayser Elementary School	56.5%	375
Hazelwood Elementary School	37.3%	620
Highland Middle School	36%	888
Cochran Elementary School	50.3%	388
Jacob Elementary School	58.5%	554
Iroquois High School	55.3%	1,332
Meyzeek Middle School	29.8%	1,020
Norton Commons Elementary School	19.4%	685
Young Elementary School	75.3%	215
Jefferson County Traditional Middle School	36.7%	897
King Elementary School	85.7%	363
Noe Middle School	32.8%	1,415
McFerran Preparatory Academy	71.9%	903
Ackerly	18.2%	466
Mary Ryan Academy	20.8%	24
Jefferson Regional Juvenile Detention Ce	79.3%	145
Heuser Hearing & Language Academy	36.4%	11
Johnson Traditional Middle School	59.7%	762
Maupin Elementary School	88%	392
Portland Elementary School	52.9%	278
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts	43.9%	583
Rutherford Elementary School	37.5%	573
Semple Elementary School	47.7%	660
The Academy @ Shawnee	62.4%	609
Shelby Academy	62.2%	505
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North	45%	609
Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary School	76.3%	493
Carter Traditional Elementary School	59.5%	563
Western Middle School for the Arts	55.2%	669
Kennedy Elementary School	82.3%	519
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South	44.7%	693
Home of the Innocents Discovery	22.9%	35
Home of the Innocents School	11.9%	134
Peace Academy	31.2%	1,858
Grace M. James Academy of Excellence	79.4%	364
Churchill Park School	36.9%	122
George Unseld Early Childhood Center	52.5%	396
Ahrens Educational Resource Center	40%	35
Pathfinder School of Innovation	37.6%	2,396
Kentucky School for the Blind	17.1%	76