Kammerer Middle

Kammerer Middle operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Louisville, Kentucky, operated by Jefferson County. Current enrollment sits at 781 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 40% larger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Jefferson County runs 167 schools in total, collectively educating 95,124 students. Kammerer Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Kammerer Middle reports that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Kammerer Middle logs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Kammerer Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, Kammerer Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 37.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household income runs about $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Kammerer Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ballard High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kammerer Middle. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kammerer Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 924 students in 2018 compared to 781 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 40% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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