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What's something Hartstern Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
597
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000704
Hartstern Elementary
5200 Morningside Way, Louisville, KY 40219 · (502) 485-8262 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL597 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Kentucky public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
388 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 124 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
26.0%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
17.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.9%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hartstern Elementary
Hartstern Elementary's state test result (19.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartstern Elementary this school | 597 | 65.0% | 19.5% |
| Klondike Lane Elementary Louisville | 527 | 69.4% | 26.0% |
| Smyrna Elementary School Louisville | 515 | 69.7% | 27.7% |
| Coventry Oak Elementary Lexington | 755 | 65.7% | 24.4% |
| Fern Creek Elementary Louisville | 744 | 63.7% | 27.3% |
| Cochrane Elementary Louisville | 470 | 60.6% | 26.4% |
Matched among Kentucky elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hartstern Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.5% | #642 of 669 | #65 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #645 of 668 | #67 of 84 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #628 of 674 | #57 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 597 | #120 of 744 | #18 of 99 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #637 of 674 | #80 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #49 of 674 | #26 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.0% | #388 of 721 | #58 of 93 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +27.6% | #21 of 233 | #3 of 46 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
597
+118 (+25%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 583
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 597 | 33.3 | 17.9:1 | 65% (388) |
| 2023-24 | 567 | 34 | 16.7:1 | 64% (365) |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 29.7 | 17.7:1 | 67% (355) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 61% (291) |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 28.8 | 16.3:1 | 71% (330) |
| 2015-16 | 471 | 27 | 17.4:1 | 79% (373) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 28 | 17.7:1 | 75% (369) |
| 2000-01 | 551 | N/A | N/A | 55% (301) |
| 1990-91 | 583 | 31 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hartstern Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (468 to 597); teachers up 16% (28.8 to 33.3).
About Hartstern Elementary
Hartstern Elementary is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 597 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Kentucky is roughly 421 students; this school is 42% larger than that.
Jefferson County (167 schools, 95,124 students) runs Hartstern Elementary.
The most common group at Hartstern Elementary is Hispanic students, at 40%. It is also 31% Black, 17% White, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Jefferson County's residents are about 9% Hispanic, 31 points below the school's share. Hartstern Elementary's diversity index is 71%, against a US figure of 70%.
At Hartstern Elementary, 33.3 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 17.9:1. That is higher than the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in Kentucky. Roughly 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
Hartstern Elementary is graded F by allk12, scoring above 3% of Kentucky public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Hartstern Elementary is 21.4 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Kentucky.
According to the American Community Survey, in Jefferson County, the median household income is $69,866, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. There are 175 public schools in Jefferson County, enrolling about 95,579 students in all.
The next-closest public school is Okolona Elementary, about 1.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hartstern Elementary is 4th of 8 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment grew 25% from its 2020-21 level of 479. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.0:1 to 17.9:1 over the same years.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
783,022
Census ACS
Median income
$69,866
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
175
95,579 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County
- Ballard HighHigh · 2,148 students
- duPont Manual HighHigh · 1,899 students
- Marion C. Moore SchoolHigh · 1,892 students
- Eastern HighHigh · 1,790 students
- Pleasure Ridge Park HighHigh · 1,777 students
- Louisville Male HighHigh · 1,763 students
Other schools in Louisville
- Ballard HighHigh · 2,148 students
- duPont Manual HighHigh · 1,899 students
- Marion C. Moore SchoolHigh · 1,892 students
- Pleasure Ridge Park HighHigh · 1,777 students
- Louisville Male HighHigh · 1,763 students
- Southern HighHigh · 1,725 students
Nearby schools
- Okolona Elementary1.3 mi · 417
- Southern High1.3 mi · 1,725
- Smyrna Elementary School1.4 mi · 515
- Marion C. Moore School1.5 mi · 1,892
- Rangeland Elementary1.7 mi · 532
- Slaughter Elementary1.8 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About Hartstern ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hartstern Elementary?
Hartstern Elementary enrolls approximately 597 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hartstern Elementary serve?
Hartstern Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hartstern Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hartstern Elementary is approximately 17.9:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hartstern Elementary?
At Hartstern Elementary, the student body is approximately 17% White, 40% Hispanic, 31% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Hartstern Elementary?
Hartstern Elementary is overseen by Jefferson County in Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.