Lassiter Middle

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Lassiter Middle is a well-populated intermediate school, run under Jefferson County. It serves 921 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 65% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Lassiter Middle lists that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% White, 15% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 61%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lassiter Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.6%; actual is 20.2%, a gap of -17.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) reports that median household earnings sit near $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which Lassiter Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Auburndale Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lassiter Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 20.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 987 students in 2018 compared to 921 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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