Jeffersontown Elementary

Jeffersontown Elementary is an elementary campus of well-populated scale in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, part of Jefferson County, instructing 686 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Jeffersontown Elementary sits 63% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Jeffersontown Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 27% Black, 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Jeffersontown Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jeffersontown Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.8%; this one comes in at 21.2%, -20.5 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household earnings sit near $69,866, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Jeffersontown Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jeffersontown High, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jeffersontown Elementary ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Jeffersontown Elementary's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 720 (now 686). The White share of enrollment edged down from 54% to 37% over that span.

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