Knight Middle

Knight Middle is a 6-8 campus of average-sized scale in Louisville, Kentucky, part of Jefferson County, enrolling 757 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 36% larger than the state mean of about 558.

Knight Middle is one of 167 schools operated by Jefferson County, a district that works with 95,124 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Knight Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 31% White, 23% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Knight Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

After controlling for student poverty, Knight Middle is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.4%; Knight Middle posts 19.1%, -19.2 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $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 Knight Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Blue Lick Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Knight Middle at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 25.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Knight Middle's enrollment has climbed 82% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 757). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 53% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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