Louisville City Wire

There were 8,038 kindergarten students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Tully Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 134 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 Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Tully Elementary School	134	15.7%	851
Bowen Elementary School	133	17.6%	756
Fern Creek Elementary School	129	15.8%	816
Stopher Elementary School	129	16.2%	794
Norton Elementary School	127	16.8%	758
Jeffersontown Elementary School	127	16.6%	763
Hartstern Elementary School	126	21.4%	588
Farmer Elementary School	126	15.6%	809
Indian Trail Elementary School	125	19.9%	629
Semple Elementary School	120	18.2%	660
Fairdale Elementary School	117	18%	650
Eisenhower Elementary School	115	18.1%	636
Goldsmith Elementary School	114	16.2%	702
Foster Traditional Academy	114	18.1%	631
Auburndale Elementary School	112	16.7%	670
St. Matthews Elementary School	110	18.1%	609
Wheeler Elementary School	110	16.7%	657
Wilder Elementary School	109	17.4%	628
Chancey Elementary School	109	16.8%	649
Lowe Elementary School	108	17.6%	613
McFerran Preparatory Academy	108	12%	903
Middletown Elementary School	107	17.6%	609
Bates Elementary School	106	17.5%	604
Kenwood Elementary School	106	17%	624
Norton Commons Elementary School	104	15.2%	685
Audubon Traditional Elementary School	103	16.2%	637
Coral Ridge Elementary School	100	15.9%	629
Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary School	99	20.1%	493
Rangeland Elementary School	98	18.6%	528
Luhr Elementary School	98	16.5%	594
Greathouse/Shryock Traditional	97	15.5%	624
Schaffner Traditional Elementary School	96	15.7%	611
Smyrna Elementary School	96	15.7%	612
Wilt Elementary School	96	16.5%	583
Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts	96	16.5%	583
Laukhuf Elementary School	95	13.3%	714
Rutherford Elementary School	95	16.6%	573
Stonestreet Elementary School	93	17.9%	519
Camp Taylor Elementary School	91	17.1%	533
Blue Lick Elementary School	91	15.8%	575
Jacob Elementary School	91	16.4%	554
Sanders Elementary School	89	18.6%	478
Trunnell Elementary School	89	16%	557
Price Elementary School	89	17.4%	511
Watterson Elementary School	88	14.7%	597
Dunn Elementary School	88	16.6%	529
Hazelwood Elementary School	87	14%	620
Carter Traditional Elementary School	87	15.5%	563
Wilkerson Elementary School	86	13.2%	651
Blake Elementary School	86	13.7%	630
Greenwood Elementary School	85	17.1%	498
Wellington Elementary School	85	17.8%	478
Layne Elementary School	84	17.7%	475
Bloom Elementary School	84	15.7%	534
Cochrane Elementary School	83	14.2%	583
Slaughter Elementary School	83	18.8%	441
Klondike Lane Elementary School	82	15.6%	524
Field Elementary School	82	17.9%	459
Frayser Elementary School	82	21.9%	375
Hite Elementary School	81	16.8%	481
Cane Run Elementary School	80	17%	470
Medora Elementary School	80	16.6%	482
Mill Creek Elementary School	80	15.1%	531
Gutermuth Elementary School	77	17.9%	431
Brandeis Elementary School	77	16.2%	476
Kennedy Elementary School	77	14.8%	519
Hawthorne Elementary School	75	15.2%	493
Engelhard Elementary School	75	21.6%	347
Crums Lane Elementary School	69	16.7%	412
Shelby Academy	69	13.7%	505
Chenoweth Elementary School	67	12.6%	533
Maupin Elementary School	67	17.1%	392
Dixie Elementary School	64	15.3%	418
Okolona Elementary School	63	15.2%	414
Zachary Taylor Elementary School	61	16.5%	370
Alex R. Kennedy Elementary School	60	14.2%	424
Kerrick Elementary School	59	13.6%	435
Minors Lane Elementary School	58	13.5%	429
Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School	56	17.8%	314
Shacklette Elementary School	56	11.5%	487
Johnsontown Road Elementary School	56	14.5%	387
Cochran Elementary School	56	14.4%	388
Byck Elementary School	54	16.7%	323
King Elementary School	53	14.6%	363
Portland Elementary School	53	19.1%	278
J. Graham Brown School	49	6.6%	742
Atkinson Academy	49	13%	378
Peace Academy	45	2.4%	1,858
Young Elementary School	44	20.5%	215
Wheatley Elementary School	43	11.3%	379
Anchorage Independent Public School	39	9.5%	411
Pathfinder School of Innovation	25	1%	2,396
The Brook-Dupont	12	2.9%	418
Churchill Park School	4	3.3%	122
Heuser Hearing & Language Academy	3	27.3%	11
Western Day Treatment	1	4.3%	23
Home of the Innocents Discovery	1	2.9%	35
Kentucky School for the Blind	1	1.3%	76