Noe Middle

Noe Middle is one of the sprawling intermediate schools in Louisville, Kentucky, run under Jefferson County, with 1,155 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 107% larger than the state mean of about 558.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Noe Middle logs that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 24% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 43% 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Noe Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +11.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $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. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Noe Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is duPont Manual High, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Noe Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 1,337 students in 2018 compared to 1,155 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 34% to 24% across the same window.

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