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How has Carrithers Middle changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
545
Middle
DISTRICT 761 · STATE 558
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000728
Carrithers Middle
4320 Billtown Road, Louisville, KY 40299 · (502) 485-8224 · Jefferson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of Kentucky public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
348 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 174 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 142 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 229 | 42% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
29.7%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
25.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Carrithers Middle
Carrithers Middle's state test result (27.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrithers Middle this school | 545 | 63.9% | 27.5% |
| Crawford Middle School Lexington | 710 | 66.2% | 34.2% |
| North Middle School Radcliff | 567 | 60.5% | 27.7% |
| Rector A. Jones Middle School Florence | 683 | 64.3% | 28.3% |
| Conway Middle Louisville | 678 | 67.8% | 12.1% |
| Westport Middle Louisville | 988 | 57.1% | 34.0% |
Matched among Kentucky middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Carrithers Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #192 of 216 | #12 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #194 of 216 | #13 of 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #199 of 217 | #14 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #117 of 221 | #20 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #39 of 210 | #7 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #9 of 210 | #4 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.9% | #77 of 219 | #13 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #30 of 156 | #6 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
545
-110 (-17%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 722
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 16.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 545 | 38.4 | 14.2:1 | 64% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 61% (335) |
| 2022-23 | 583 | 38.3 | 15.2:1 | 60% (348) |
| 2020-21 | 655 | 39 | 16.8:1 | 60% (394) |
| 2017-18 | 699 | 36.7 | 19.1:1 | 63% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 680 | 38 | 17.9:1 | 60% (411) |
| 2010-11 | 530 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 66% (352) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 35 | 18.5:1 | 39% (253) |
| 1990-91 | 722 | 39 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carrithers Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (699 to 545); teachers up 5% (36.7 to 38.4).
About Carrithers Middle
Carrithers Middle is a medium-sized middle school with an address in Louisville, Kentucky. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 545 students.
Jefferson County is made up of 167 schools with 95,124 students in all.
Carrithers Middle's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 39%. Smaller groups are 26% Black, 25% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 63% of Jefferson County residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Carrithers Middle belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 72%.
Staffing totals 38.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. For comparison, middle schools in Kentucky average 15.8:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 64%. Across public schools in Jefferson County, the average is about the same, 61%.
Carrithers Middle is graded D by allk12, scoring above 9% of Kentucky public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, Carrithers Middle lands between the top and bottom 10% of Kentucky schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 27.5%; the prediction is 41.3%.
Carrithers Middle is located in Jefferson County, where median household income is about $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 175 public schools in Jefferson County, with a combined enrollment of about 95,579.
The nearest other public school, Jeffersontown Elementary, is about 0.8 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Carrithers Middle. By average proficiency, Carrithers Middle is 4th among 9 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around Carrithers Middle as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 545, 17% below the 655 of 2020-21. Students per teacher fell from 16.8 in 2020-21 to 14.2 in 2024-25.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
783,022
Census ACS
Median income
$69,866
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
175
95,579 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County
- Ballard HighHigh · 2,148 students
- duPont Manual HighHigh · 1,899 students
- Marion C. Moore SchoolHigh · 1,892 students
- Eastern HighHigh · 1,790 students
- Pleasure Ridge Park HighHigh · 1,777 students
- Louisville Male HighHigh · 1,763 students
Other schools in Louisville
- Ballard HighHigh · 2,148 students
- duPont Manual HighHigh · 1,899 students
- Marion C. Moore SchoolHigh · 1,892 students
- Pleasure Ridge Park HighHigh · 1,777 students
- Louisville Male HighHigh · 1,763 students
- Southern HighHigh · 1,725 students
Nearby schools
- Jeffersontown Elementary0.8 mi · 686
- Tully Elementary1.0 mi · 791
- Wheeler Elementary1.0 mi · 626
- Jeffersontown High1.4 mi · 1,196
- Cochrane Elementary2.0 mi · 470
- Fern Creek High2.0 mi · 1,525
Frequently asked questions
About Carrithers MiddleHow many students attend Carrithers Middle?
Carrithers Middle enrolls approximately 545 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Carrithers Middle serve?
Carrithers Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Carrithers Middle have?
Carrithers Middle employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
How diverse is Carrithers Middle?
Carrithers Middle reports a student body of 39% White, 25% Hispanic, 26% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Carrithers Middle?
Carrithers Middle is overseen by Jefferson County in Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.