Crosby Middle

Crosby Middle is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Middletown, Kentucky, part of Jefferson County. The school instructs 809 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Crosby Middle sits 45% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 167 schools in Jefferson County (95,124 students total), Crosby Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Crosby Middle logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 13% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Crosby Middle records 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Crosby Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crosby Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Crosby Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Middletown Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Crosby Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

Crosby Middle operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 28%: 1,120 students in 2018 compared to 809 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 56% to 48%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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