Central High Magnet Career Academy

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Central High Magnet Career Academy is a sizable secondary school, part of Jefferson County. It serves 1,256 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 125% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Jefferson County comprises 167 schools with combined enrollment of 95,124 students; Central High Magnet Career Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Central High Magnet Career Academy lists that Black students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Central High Magnet Career Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.5%.

In the area at large, 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. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Central High Magnet Career Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central High Magnet Career Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central High Magnet Career Academy at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 25.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central High Magnet Career Academy has ticked up 7%, going from 1,177 students in 2018 to 1,256 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 9% to 14% over that span.

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