Blue Lick Elementary

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Blue Lick Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, run under Jefferson County. It hosts 508 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% larger than the state mean of about 421.

Blue Lick Elementary is one of 167 schools operated by Jefferson County, a district that caters to 95,124 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Blue Lick Elementary records that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 25% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Blue Lick Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blue Lick Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Blue Lick Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Knight Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blue Lick Elementary. On composite proficiency, Blue Lick Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blue Lick Elementary has decreased 3%, going from 523 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 58% to 34%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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