Ballard High

Ballard High operates as a well-populated four-year high school in Louisville, Kentucky, part of Jefferson County. Current enrollment sits at 2,148 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 558 students per school, that is 285% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Ballard High reports that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 25% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, The school employs 113 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Ballard High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at Ballard High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ballard High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Ballard High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Kammerer Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ballard High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

Ballard High operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ballard High has edged up 14%, going from 1,881 students in 2018 to 2,148 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 32% to 25% over that span.

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