Jefferson County Traditional Middle

Located at 1418 Morton Ave, in Louisville, Kentucky, Jefferson County Traditional Middle is a moderately sized junior high that educates 813 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Jefferson County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Jefferson County Traditional Middle sits 46% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 167 schools in Jefferson County (95,124 students total), Jefferson County Traditional Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Jefferson County Traditional Middle shows that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 40% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Jefferson County Traditional Middle records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jefferson County Traditional Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -8.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Jefferson County Traditional Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Breckinridge Metropolitan High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jefferson County Traditional Middle at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 40.0%.

Jefferson County Traditional Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Jefferson County Traditional Middle's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 931 (now 813). White enrollment moved from 57% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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