Highland Middle

Highland Middle, a mid-tier middle school in Louisville, Kentucky, operated by Jefferson County, enrolls 639 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Jefferson County comprises 167 schools with combined enrollment of 95,124 students; Highland Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Highland Middle records that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 22% Black, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at Highland Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Highland Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Jefferson County shows 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. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Highland Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Peace Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 30%: 914 students in 2018 compared to 639 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 41% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.