Okolona Elementary

Okolona Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the schools within Jefferson County. Current enrollment sits at 417 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, Okolona Elementary logs that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Black, 22% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the resource side, On paper, Okolona Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 75% of students at Okolona Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Okolona Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.3%; this one delivers 26.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate 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%. Okolona Elementary is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

Southern High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Okolona Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Okolona Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 16.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Okolona Elementary has expanded 28%, going from 327 students in 2018 to 417 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 23% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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