Atkinson Academy

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Atkinson Academy is a mid-tier K-5 school, operated by Jefferson County. It teaches 462 students across grades K through 5.

Jefferson County runs 167 schools in total, collectively educating 95,124 students. Atkinson Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Atkinson Academy reports that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Atkinson Academy logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Atkinson Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.9%; actual is 12.5%, a gap of -18.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household income runs about $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Atkinson Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Western Middle School for the Arts, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Atkinson Academy comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 4%: 444 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 34% to 19% over that span.

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