Minors Lane Elementary

Minors Lane Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Louisville, Kentucky, part of Jefferson County. The school works with 370 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Minors Lane Elementary is one of 167 schools operated by Jefferson County, a district that teaches 95,124 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Minors Lane Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 21% White, 21% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Minors Lane Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Minors Lane Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -12.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $69,866, 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 Minors Lane Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Blake Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Minors Lane Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Minors Lane Elementary's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 431 (now 370). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 29% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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