Kerrick Elementary

Kerrick Elementary is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in Louisville, Kentucky, operated by Jefferson County, with 348 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 167 schools and 95,124 students, Kerrick Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Kerrick Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 30% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Kerrick Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kerrick Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.0%; this one comes in at 16.6%, -21.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate 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%. Kerrick Elementary is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

Waller-Williams Environmental is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Kerrick Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 15.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Kerrick Elementary's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 348). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 51% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Kerrick Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.