Newburg Middle

Newburg Middle is an intermediate school of mid-sized scale in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the schools within Jefferson County, enrolling 615 students in grades 6 through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, Newburg Middle logs that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 18% White, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Newburg Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Newburg Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of -13.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put 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 Newburg Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Price Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Newburg Middle at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 15.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Newburg Middle's enrollment has contracted 43% since 2018, when it stood at 1,073 (now 615). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 15% to 24%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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