Ahrens Educational Resource Center

Ahrens Educational Resource Center operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in Louisville, Kentucky, run under Jefferson County. Current enrollment sits at 38 students spanning grade 12. That puts it 93% smaller than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Ahrens Educational Resource Center is one of 167 schools operated by Jefferson County, a district that serves 95,124 students overall.

Demographically, Ahrens Educational Resource Center logs that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 37% White, 11% Hispanic, 8% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Ahrens Educational Resource Center has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Ahrens Educational Resource Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 39% of students at Ahrens Educational Resource Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jefferson County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the broader community, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Ahrens Educational Resource Center is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

The closest other public school is J. Graham Brown School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ahrens Educational Resource Center.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 39 students in 2018 compared to 38 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 3% to 11% over that span.

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