Engelhard Elementary

Engelhard Elementary is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in Louisville, Kentucky, part of Jefferson County, hosting 265 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 37% below typical.

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

On demographics, Engelhard Elementary reports that 73% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 11% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Engelhard Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Engelhard Elementary is one.

Heuser Hearing & Language Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 29%: 375 students in 2018 compared to 265 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 66% to 73%.

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