Louisville City Wire

There were 40,471 white students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.6% decrease from the 42,413 white 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, white students comprised 36.1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 165 schools in Jefferson County, Eastern High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,220 students, making up 54.5% 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.

School name	% of White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Anchorage Independent Public School	88.6%	411
Camp Taylor Elementary School	37.1%	533
Cane Run Elementary School	12.6%	470
Eastern High School	54.5%	2,240
Fairdale Elementary School	42.3%	650
Fern Creek Elementary School	29%	816
Fern Creek High School	31.9%	1,902
Greathouse/Shryock Traditional	38.9%	624
Greenwood Elementary School	45.4%	498
Tully Elementary School	56.3%	851
Atherton High School	62.7%	1,542
The Brook-Dupont	59.3%	418
The Brook-Kmi	72.1%	634
Medora Elementary School	72.4%	482
Middletown Elementary School	44.2%	609
Okolona Elementary School	27.1%	414
Boys & Girls Haven	56.9%	58
St. Joseph Children's Home	77.1%	70
Liberty High School	27.2%	184
Southern High School	31.6%	1,596
Valley High School	46.1%	1,076
Waller-Williams Environmental	27.7%	119
Dawson Orman Education Center	13.2%	325
Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School	23.6%	314
Barret Traditional Middle School	49.3%	653
Newburg Middle School	23.7%	1,072
Audubon Traditional Elementary School	49.3%	637
Butler Traditional High School	29.9%	1,440
Chenoweth Elementary School	47.7%	533
Louisville Male High School	44.6%	2,003
Hawthorne Elementary School	42%	493
Farnsley Middle School	40.3%	1,112
Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program	13.5%	74
Waggener High School	30.1%	1,061
Bates Elementary School	52.2%	604
Fairdale High School	43.5%	1,508
Kenwood Elementary School	37.3%	624
Coral Ridge Elementary School	53.4%	629
Goldsmith Elementary School	23.4%	702
Schaffner Traditional Elementary School	34%	611
St. Matthews Elementary School	55.3%	609
Jeffersontown High School	37.1%	1,100
Wilkerson Elementary School	42.7%	651
Wilder Elementary School	43.3%	628
Duvalle Education Center	5.2%	310
Stonestreet Elementary School	50.9%	519
Watterson Elementary School	30%	597
Seneca High School	27.2%	1,552
Pleasure Ridge Park High School	49.8%	1,642
Indian Trail Elementary School	11.9%	629
Westport Middle School	39.7%	1,354
Zachary Taylor Elementary School	21.6%	370
Kerrick Elementary School	36.3%	435
Rangeland Elementary School	13.6%	528
Dixie Elementary School	38%	418
Cochrane Elementary School	32.6%	583
Western High School	16.8%	1,036
Sanders Elementary School	40.6%	478
Smyrna Elementary School	36.9%	612
Thomas Jefferson Middle School	21.9%	1,082
Blue Lick Elementary School	43%	575
Crums Lane Elementary School	11.4%	412
Bowen Elementary School	49.3%	756
Hite Elementary School	62.4%	481
Norton Elementary School	57%	758
Shacklette Elementary School	27.1%	487
Minors Lane Elementary School	22.4%	429
Doss High School	24.7%	1,125
Chancey Elementary School	25.9%	649
Slaughter Elementary School	13.6%	441
Trunnell Elementary School	24.2%	557
Ballard High School	52.9%	2,131
Johnsontown Road Elementary School	43.2%	387
Luhr Elementary School	33.2%	594
Wheeler Elementary School	49%	657
Western Day Treatment	39.1%	23
Gutermuth Elementary School	17.4%	431
Wellington Elementary School	24.5%	478
Wilt Elementary School	39.6%	583
Crosby Middle School	43.2%	1,148
Hartstern Elementary School	21.8%	588
U. of L. Pact Program	80%	20
Layne Elementary School	46.3%	475
Auburndale Elementary School	28.7%	670
Price Elementary School	11.2%	511
Breckinridge Metropolitan High School	13.6%	235
Eisenhower Elementary School	65.7%	636
Lassiter Middle School	37%	1,112
Klondike Lane Elementary School	25%	524
Louisville Day	26.7%	15
Stuart Academy	33.4%	1,334
Laukhuf Elementary School	46.4%	714
Lowe Elementary School	49.3%	613
Mill Creek Elementary School	7.5%	531
Blake Elementary School	30.5%	630
Marion C. Moore School	29.5%	2,715
Dunn Elementary School	59.2%	529
Kammerer Middle School	42.4%	801
Knight Middle School	37.6%	529
Conway Middle School	36.8%	818
J. Graham Brown School	60%	742
Jeffersontown Elementary School	38.8%	763
Carrithers Middle School	38.6%	661
Alex R. Kennedy Elementary School	37%	424
Central High Magnet Career Academy	5.6%	1,233
Wheatley Elementary School	5.5%	379
Binet School	26.1%	46
Atkinson Academy	24.3%	378
Newcomer Academy	8%	1,445
W.E.B. Dubois Academy	2.2%	594
Mary Jo and William MacDonald Maryhurst	74%	127
Dupont Manual High School	50.3%	1,935
The Phoenix School of Discovery	65%	412
Minor Daniels Academy	16.5%	496
Stopher Elementary School	59.9%	794
Farmer Elementary School	51.2%	809
Ramsey Middle School	37.2%	1,141
Bellewood	66.7%	21
Brooklawn	70%	120
Westport Early Childhood Center	38.4%	315
Bloom Elementary School	79.6%	534
Engelhard Elementary School	12.7%	347
Byck Elementary School	5.6%	323
Field Elementary School	55.1%	459
Brandeis Elementary School	20.6%	476
Foster Traditional Academy	1.6%	631
Frayser Elementary School	12.8%	375
Hazelwood Elementary School	18.5%	620
Highland Middle School	42.6%	888
Cochran Elementary School	28.6%	388
Jacob Elementary School	17.9%	554
Iroquois High School	17.3%	1,332
Meyzeek Middle School	30.9%	1,020
Norton Commons Elementary School	50.7%	685
Young Elementary School	2.8%	215
Jefferson County Traditional Middle School	47%	897
King Elementary School	4.7%	363
Noe Middle School	46.4%	1,415
McFerran Preparatory Academy	7.3%	903
Ackerly	65%	466
Mary Ryan Academy	70.8%	24
Jefferson Regional Juvenile Detention Ce	13.8%	145
Heuser Hearing & Language Academy	54.5%	11
Johnson Traditional Middle School	23.8%	762
Maupin Elementary School	3.8%	392
Portland Elementary School	35.6%	278
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts	37.7%	583
Rutherford Elementary School	19.7%	573
Semple Elementary School	19.4%	660
The Academy @ Shawnee	25.6%	609
Shelby Academy	18%	505
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North	21.2%	609
Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary School	11.4%	493
Carter Traditional Elementary School	26.6%	563
Western Middle School for the Arts	25.7%	669
Kennedy Elementary School	6%	519
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South	21.4%	693
Home of the Innocents Discovery	71.4%	35
Home of the Innocents School	78.4%	134
Peace Academy	56.4%	1,858
Grace M. James Academy of Excellence	6.6%	364
Churchill Park School	38.5%	122
George Unseld Early Childhood Center	14.9%	396
Ahrens Educational Resource Center	37.1%	35
Pathfinder School of Innovation	43.9%	2,396
Kentucky School for the Blind	51.3%	76