Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary

Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary is one of the cozy K-5 schools in Louisville, Kentucky, operated by Jefferson County, with 315 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary sits 25% below that benchmark.

Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary is one of 167 schools operated by Jefferson County, a district that enrolls 95,124 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 76% of students at Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.8%; actual is 17.0%, a gap of -19.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $69,866, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

Central High Magnet Career Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 34.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary has decreased 48%, going from 606 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 23% to 14% across the same window.

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