Auburndale Elementary

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Auburndale Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community, operated by Jefferson County. It educates 596 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 42% above typical.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 167 schools and 95,124 students, Auburndale Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Auburndale Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 27% Black, 25% White, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 76% of students at Auburndale Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Auburndale Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of -9.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $69,866, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Auburndale Elementary is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

Lassiter Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Auburndale Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Auburndale Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 19.0%.

Auburndale Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Auburndale Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 606 students in 2018 to 596 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 45% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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