Enrollment Analysis: American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.1% 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

Aug 15, 2024

There were 148 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.3% decrease from the 153 American Indian or Alaska Native 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 165 schools in Jefferson County, Ballard High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six students, making up 0.3% 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 American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Cane Run Elementary School	0.2%	470
Eastern High School	0.1%	2,240
Fairdale Elementary School	0.2%	650
Fern Creek Elementary School	0.1%	816
Fern Creek High School	0.1%	1,902
Greenwood Elementary School	1%	498
Tully Elementary School	0.1%	851
The Brook-Kmi	0.3%	634
St. Joseph Children's Home	1.4%	70
Liberty High School	0.5%	184
Southern High School	0.1%	1,596
Valley High School	0.2%	1,076
Barret Traditional Middle School	0.2%	653
Audubon Traditional Elementary School	0.3%	637
Butler Traditional High School	0.1%	1,440
Louisville Male High School	0.1%	2,003
Farnsley Middle School	0.3%	1,112
Waggener High School	0.1%	1,061
Coral Ridge Elementary School	0.3%	629
Jeffersontown High School	0.3%	1,100
Stonestreet Elementary School	0.2%	519
Seneca High School	0.1%	1,552
Pleasure Ridge Park High School	0.1%	1,642
Indian Trail Elementary School	0.2%	629
Westport Middle School	0.1%	1,354
Kerrick Elementary School	0.2%	435
Rangeland Elementary School	0.2%	528
Cochrane Elementary School	0.2%	583
Smyrna Elementary School	0.2%	612
Thomas Jefferson Middle School	0.1%	1,082
Blue Lick Elementary School	0.2%	575
Bowen Elementary School	0.1%	756
Hite Elementary School	0.4%	481
Norton Elementary School	0.4%	758
Shacklette Elementary School	0.2%	487
Doss High School	0.2%	1,125
Ballard High School	0.3%	2,131
Johnsontown Road Elementary School	0.3%	387
Wheeler Elementary School	0.2%	657
Wellington Elementary School	0.4%	478
Crosby Middle School	0.1%	1,148
Layne Elementary School	0.4%	475
Auburndale Elementary School	0.1%	670
Price Elementary School	0.4%	511
Lassiter Middle School	0.2%	1,112
Klondike Lane Elementary School	0.4%	524
Laukhuf Elementary School	0.3%	714
Lowe Elementary School	0.3%	613
Marion C. Moore School	0.1%	2,715
Kammerer Middle School	0.1%	801
Conway Middle School	0.1%	818
J. Graham Brown School	0.1%	742
Jeffersontown Elementary School	0.5%	763
Central High Magnet Career Academy	0.2%	1,233
Wheatley Elementary School	0.3%	379
Dupont Manual High School	0.1%	1,935
The Phoenix School of Discovery	0.5%	412
Stopher Elementary School	0.5%	794
Ramsey Middle School	0.1%	1,141
Westport Early Childhood Center	1%	315
Bloom Elementary School	0.2%	534
Brandeis Elementary School	0.4%	476
Frayser Elementary School	0.5%	375
Hazelwood Elementary School	0.2%	620
Highland Middle School	0.1%	888
Cochran Elementary School	0.3%	388
Jacob Elementary School	0.2%	554
Meyzeek Middle School	0.4%	1,020
Young Elementary School	0.9%	215
Jefferson County Traditional Middle School	0.1%	897
King Elementary School	0.6%	363
McFerran Preparatory Academy	0.3%	903
Ackerly	0.2%	466
Johnson Traditional Middle School	0.1%	762
Maupin Elementary School	0.8%	392
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts	0.2%	583
Semple Elementary School	0.2%	660
The Academy @ Shawnee	0.2%	609
Shelby Academy	0.4%	505
Carter Traditional Elementary School	0.2%	563
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South	0.1%	693
Peace Academy	0.2%	1,858
George Unseld Early Childhood Center	0.3%	396
Pathfinder School of Innovation	0.1%	2,396