Louisville City Wire

There were 8,334 seventh grade students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Noe Middle School welcomed most of the seventh grade students in the county, registering 474 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 7th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Noe Middle School	474	33.5%	1,415
Westport Middle School	446	32.9%	1,354
Stuart Academy	436	32.7%	1,334
Marion C. Moore School	414	15.2%	2,715
Thomas Jefferson Middle School	388	35.9%	1,082
Newburg Middle School	371	34.6%	1,072
Ramsey Middle School	365	32%	1,141
Crosby Middle School	354	30.8%	1,148
Farnsley Middle School	353	31.7%	1,112
Meyzeek Middle School	352	34.5%	1,020
Lassiter Middle School	338	30.4%	1,112
Highland Middle School	306	34.5%	888
Jefferson County Traditional Middle School	299	33.3%	897
Kammerer Middle School	275	34.3%	801
Pathfinder School of Innovation	261	10.9%	2,396
Conway Middle School	256	31.3%	818
Johnson Traditional Middle School	255	33.5%	762
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South	226	32.6%	693
Carrithers Middle School	222	33.6%	661
Barret Traditional Middle School	214	32.8%	653
Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North	210	34.5%	609
Western Middle School for the Arts	204	30.5%	669
Peace Academy	185	10%	1,858
Newcomer Academy	167	11.6%	1,445
Knight Middle School	163	30.8%	529
W.E.B. Dubois Academy	136	22.9%	594
Grace M. James Academy of Excellence	112	30.8%	364
Minor Daniels Academy	82	16.5%	496
J. Graham Brown School	72	9.7%	742
The Phoenix School of Discovery	59	14.3%	412
The Brook-Dupont	57	13.6%	418
Ackerly	55	11.8%	466
Anchorage Independent Public School	49	11.9%	411
The Academy @ Shawnee	47	7.7%	609
The Brook-Kmi	34	5.4%	634
Brooklawn	22	18.3%	120
St. Joseph Children's Home	13	18.6%	70
Waller-Williams Environmental	12	10.1%	119
Home of the Innocents School	11	8.2%	134
Mary Jo and William MacDonald Maryhurst	8	6.3%	127
Boys & Girls Haven	6	10.3%	58
Jefferson Regional Juvenile Detention Ce	6	4.1%	145
Churchill Park School	6	4.9%	122
Kentucky School for the Blind	6	7.9%	76
Binet School	2	4.3%	46
Home of the Innocents Discovery	2	5.7%	35
Liberty High School	1	0.5%	184
Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program	1	1.4%	74
Breckinridge Metropolitan High School	1	0.4%	235