Kennedy Elementary

Kennedy Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Louisville, Kentucky, run under Jefferson County, with 482 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Kennedy Elementary is one of 167 schools operated by Jefferson County, a district that educates 95,124 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Kennedy Elementary logs that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Kennedy Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 61%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kennedy Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.4%; Kennedy Elementary posts 11.1%, -22.3 points below that line.

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 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 Kennedy Elementary is one.

DuValle Education Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kennedy Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 24.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Kennedy Elementary's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 598 (now 482). Black enrollment moved from 73% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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