Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, part of Jefferson County. It works with 399 students across grades K through 5.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 167 schools and 95,124 students, Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary shows that Black students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 19% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

After controlling for student poverty, Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary is one.

Home of the Innocents Discovery is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary has fell 14%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 5% to 14%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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