Fern Creek High

Fern Creek High is an expansive senior high in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the schools within Jefferson County. The school enrolls 1,525 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Fern Creek High sits 173% larger than that benchmark.

Jefferson County runs 167 schools in total, collectively educating 95,124 students. Fern Creek High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Fern Creek High records that 33% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 32% White, 25% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, On paper, Fern Creek High has 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Fern Creek High tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Fern Creek High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 43.3%; actual is 23.5%, a gap of -19.8 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%. Fern Creek High is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

Fern Creek Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fern Creek High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fern Creek High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fern Creek High has decreased 9%, going from 1,682 students in 2018 to 1,525 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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