Barret Traditional Middle

Located at 2561 Grinstead Drive, in Louisville, Kentucky, Barret Traditional Middle is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus that hosts 579 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Jefferson County.

Barret Traditional Middle is one of 167 schools operated by Jefferson County, a district that hosts 95,124 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Barret Traditional Middle lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 34% Black, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barret Traditional Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $69,866, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Barret Traditional Middle is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

St Joseph Children's Home is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Barret Traditional Middle comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Barret Traditional Middle's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 644 (now 579). The White share of enrollment edged down from 67% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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