Louisville City Wire

There were 9,604 10th grade students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.9% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Eastern High School welcomed most of the 10th grade students in the county, registering 594 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 10th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Eastern High School	594	26.5%	2,240
Fern Creek High School	544	28.6%	1,902
Ballard High School	532	25%	2,131
Louisville Male High School	522	26.1%	2,003
Dupont Manual High School	491	25.4%	1,935
Southern High School	443	27.8%	1,596
Pleasure Ridge Park High School	439	26.7%	1,642
Marion C. Moore School	436	16.1%	2,715
Fairdale High School	421	27.9%	1,508
Seneca High School	420	27.1%	1,552
Iroquois High School	408	30.6%	1,332
Atherton High School	388	25.2%	1,542
Pathfinder School of Innovation	382	15.9%	2,396
Butler Traditional High School	356	24.7%	1,440
Doss High School	324	28.8%	1,125
Central High Magnet Career Academy	306	24.8%	1,233
Western High School	305	29.4%	1,036
Waggener High School	296	27.9%	1,061
Valley High School	288	26.8%	1,076
Jeffersontown High School	284	25.8%	1,100
Peace Academy	217	11.7%	1,858
Newcomer Academy	200	13.8%	1,445
The Brook-Kmi	144	22.7%	634
The Academy @ Shawnee	144	23.6%	609
Minor Daniels Academy	101	20.4%	496
Ackerly	91	19.5%	466
W.E.B. Dubois Academy	87	14.6%	594
Breckinridge Metropolitan High School	69	29.4%	235
Liberty High School	64	34.8%	184
The Phoenix School of Discovery	62	15%	412
J. Graham Brown School	53	7.1%	742
Jefferson Regional Juvenile Detention Ce	40	27.6%	145
Home of the Innocents School	34	25.4%	134
Mary Jo and William MacDonald Maryhurst	26	20.5%	127
Brooklawn	20	16.7%	120
Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program	16	21.6%	74
Waller-Williams Environmental	14	11.8%	119
Churchill Park School	10	8.2%	122
Boys & Girls Haven	7	12.1%	58
Louisville Day	7	46.7%	15
Kentucky School for the Blind	7	9.2%	76
Binet School	5	10.9%	46
Mary Ryan Academy	4	16.7%	24
Home of the Innocents Discovery	3	8.6%	35