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Greathouse/Shryock Traditional
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedWhat this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Kentucky's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Greathouse/Shryock Traditional
Located at 2700 Browns Lane, in Louisville, Kentucky, Greathouse/Shryock Traditional is a mid-sized primary school that enrolls 607 students (grades K through 5), part of Jefferson County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Greathouse/Shryock Traditional sits 44% above that benchmark.
Jefferson County comprises 167 schools with combined enrollment of 95,124 students; Greathouse/Shryock Traditional is among them.
In terms of who attends, Greathouse/Shryock Traditional logs that 44% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 30% White, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 3% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.
After controlling for student poverty, Greathouse/Shryock Traditional is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 55.3%; this one delivers 75.8%, a residual of +20.5 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Greathouse/Shryock Traditional is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is The Brook-Dupont, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Greathouse/Shryock Traditional ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.4%.
Greathouse/Shryock Traditional operates from a city-core location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Greathouse/Shryock Traditional has showed little movement, going from 613 students in 2018 to 607 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 57% to 30%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Jefferson County at a glance
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