Louisville City Wire

There were 7,357 12th grade students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.6% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Eastern High School welcomed most of the 12th grade students in the county, registering 555 students.

Within Jefferson County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Jefferson County ranked first in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked first the year before.

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	# of 12th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Eastern High School	555	24.8%	2,240
Ballard High School	535	25.1%	2,131
Louisville Male High School	469	23.4%	2,003
Dupont Manual High School	469	24.2%	1,935
Pathfinder School of Innovation	460	19.2%	2,396
Pleasure Ridge Park High School	432	26.3%	1,642
Fern Creek High School	396	20.8%	1,902
Seneca High School	351	22.6%	1,552
Butler Traditional High School	345	24%	1,440
Atherton High School	332	21.5%	1,542
Southern High School	320	20.1%	1,596
Marion C. Moore School	307	11.3%	2,715
Fairdale High School	303	20.1%	1,508
Central High Magnet Career Academy	280	22.7%	1,233
Iroquois High School	217	16.3%	1,332
Doss High School	214	19%	1,125
Waggener High School	207	19.5%	1,061
Jeffersontown High School	203	18.5%	1,100
Western High School	199	19.2%	1,036
Valley High School	193	17.9%	1,076
The Academy @ Shawnee	75	12.3%	609
Peace Academy	64	3.4%	1,858
Breckinridge Metropolitan High School	59	25.1%	235
J. Graham Brown School	57	7.7%	742
The Brook-Kmi	54	8.5%	634
The Phoenix School of Discovery	50	12.1%	412
Ackerly	29	6.2%	466
Newcomer Academy	27	1.9%	1,445
Liberty High School	25	13.6%	184
Minor Daniels Academy	25	5%	496
Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program	18	24.3%	74
Mary Jo and William MacDonald Maryhurst	17	13.4%	127
Kentucky School for the Blind	12	15.8%	76
Waller-Williams Environmental	10	8.4%	119
Jefferson Regional Juvenile Detention Ce	10	6.9%	145
Mary Ryan Academy	9	37.5%	24
Boys & Girls Haven	7	12.1%	58
Binet School	4	8.7%	46
Home of the Innocents School	4	3%	134
Churchill Park School	4	3.3%	122
Brooklawn	3	2.5%	120
Home of the Innocents Discovery	3	8.6%	35
U. of L. Pact Program	2	10%	20
Louisville Day	1	6.7%	15
Ahrens Educational Resource Center	1	2.9%	35