Bellewood

Bellewood is one of the one-room-style elementary campuss in Louisville, Kentucky, run under Jefferson County, with 7 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Bellewood sits 98% below that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Bellewood lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 14% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 2.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Bellewood tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Bellewood is one.

Nearest neighbor: Anchorage Independent Public School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 82%: 40 students in 2018 compared to 7 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 18% to 0%. Class-load math has tightened: from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 2.3:1 in 2025.

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