Blake Elementary

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Blake Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, part of Jefferson County. It enrolls 561 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% larger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Across the 167 schools in Jefferson County (95,124 students total), Blake Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Blake Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 30% Black, 23% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Blake Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Blake Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 61%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blake Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.0%; this one comes in at 8.9%, -29.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, 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%. Blake Elementary is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

Southern High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Blake Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 23.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Blake Elementary's enrollment has rose 7% since 2018, when it stood at 526 (now 561). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 20% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.