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What's one thing Jacob Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
519
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000752
Jacob Elementary
3701 East Wheatmore Drive, Louisville, KY 40215 · (502) 485-8271 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL519 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% 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.
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
14.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
429 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 41 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
63%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
18.0%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
11.7%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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
13.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.4%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% 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 Jacob Elementary
Jacob Elementary's state test result (13.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Elementary this school | 519 | 82.7% | 13.1% |
| Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary Louisville | 399 | 78.4% | 25.4% |
| Cane Run Elementary Louisville | 401 | 83.0% | N/A |
| Crums Lane Elementary Louisville | 457 | 80.7% | 16.6% |
| Wellington Elementary Louisville | 418 | 78.5% | 20.0% |
| Freedom Elementary School Hopkinsville | 504 | 82.9% | 21.4% |
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 Jacob Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #659 of 669 | #76 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.7% | #660 of 668 | #78 of 84 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #657 of 674 | #73 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 519 | #215 of 744 | #39 of 99 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #268 of 674 | #27 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #134 of 674 | #58 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.7% | #87 of 721 | #18 of 93 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.0% | #153 of 437 | #20 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
519
+46 (+10%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 553
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 519 | 36.1 | 14.4:1 | 83% (429) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 35.3 | 14.7:1 | 81% (420) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 33.3 | 14.6:1 | 82% (400) |
| 2020-21 | 473 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 79% (372) |
| 2017-18 | 625 | 36.2 | 17.3:1 | 92% (572) |
| 2015-16 | 680 | 40 | 17.0:1 | 86% (588) |
| 2010-11 | 661 | 41 | 16.1:1 | 95% (628) |
| 2000-01 | 639 | N/A | N/A | 85% (545) |
| 1990-91 | 553 | 31 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jacob Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (625 to 519); teachers unchanged (36.2 to 36.1).
About Jacob Elementary
Jacob Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school found in Louisville, Kentucky. A total of 519 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Kentucky is about 421 students, so this school is 23% bigger than average.
Jefferson County has a total of 167 schools and 95,124 students, Jacob Elementary among them.
Jacob Elementary is 55% Black by enrollment. Other reported shares: 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 21% Black among all Jefferson County residents. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 36.1 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 14.4:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in Kentucky. The school's lunch program data list 83% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Jefferson County average 61%.
The allk12 Grade for Jacob Elementary is F. Compared with Kentucky public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 1% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Jacob Elementary is -21.3 points, in the bottom 10% of Kentucky. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 13.1%, and the predicted rate is 34.4%.
Within Jefferson County, the median household income is $69,866, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Besides Jacob Elementary, Jefferson County has 174 other public schools.
Mill Creek Elementary is the public school closest to Jacob Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Jacob Elementary ranks 8th of 9 on average proficiency.
Jacob Elementary is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Enrollment at Jacob Elementary climbed 10% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 473 to 519 students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.3:1 in 2020-21, and 14.4:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Jacob Elementary. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- Mill Creek Elementary0.9 mi · 437
- Hazelwood Elementary1.0 mi · 527
- Butler Traditional High1.1 mi · 1,290
- Gutermuth Elementary1.2 mi · 451
- Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North1.2 mi · 470
- Semple Elementary1.3 mi · 592
Frequently asked questions
About Jacob ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Jacob Elementary?
Jacob Elementary enrolls approximately 519 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Jacob Elementary serve?
Jacob Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jacob Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jacob Elementary is approximately 14.4:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jacob Elementary?
At Jacob Elementary, the student body is approximately 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 55% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Jacob Elementary public or private?
Jacob Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.