Conway Middle

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Conway Middle is a medium-sized 6-8 campus, operated by Jefferson County. It hosts 678 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 558 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 167 schools and 95,124 students, Conway Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Conway Middle shows that 39% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 32% White, 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Conway Middle has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Conway Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Conway Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.9%; actual is 12.1%, a gap of -27.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $69,866, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Conway Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Shacklette Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Conway Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Conway Middle has contracted 16%, going from 809 students in 2018 to 678 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 52% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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