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What's the one class at Rutherford Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
476
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000775
Rutherford Elementary
301 Southland Boulevard, Louisville, KY 40214 · (502) 485-8320 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL476 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Kentucky public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kentucky public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.4:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
370 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 11 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KSA (K-PREP) 2024-25 . % Proficient/DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
14.7%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
12.5%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48 and 43.
Source: KSA (K-PREP). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
10.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.2%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rutherford Elementary
Rutherford Elementary's state test result (10.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford Elementary this school | 476 | 77.7% | 10.9% |
| Price Elementary Louisville | 470 | 75.5% | 20.6% |
| Trunnell Elementary Louisville | 528 | 75.9% | 12.5% |
| Auburndale Elementary Louisville | 596 | 75.7% | 27.1% |
| Klondike Lane Elementary Louisville | 527 | 69.4% | 26.0% |
| Rangeland Elementary Louisville | 532 | 76.7% | 11.6% |
Matched among Kentucky elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rutherford Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.9% | #665 of 669 | #82 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.5% | #657 of 668 | #75 of 84 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #668 of 674 | #83 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 476 | #280 of 744 | #47 of 99 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.4:1 | #670 of 674 | #90 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #69 of 674 | #35 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.7% | #145 of 721 | #29 of 93 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #428 of 437 | #44 of 46 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
476
+30 (+7%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 679
Student : Teacher
23.4:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 476 | 20.3 | 23.4:1 | 78% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 20.3 | 23.8:1 | 71% (346) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 29.1 | 15.6:1 | 73% (331) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 32 | 13.9:1 | 72% (323) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 37.8 | 12.7:1 | 78% (373) |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 38 | 15.8:1 | 92% (554) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 33 | 18.0:1 | 95% (563) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | N/A | N/A | 90% (494) |
| 1990-91 | 679 | 37 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rutherford Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (479 to 476); teachers down 46% (37.8 to 20.3).
About Rutherford Elementary
Federal records list Rutherford Elementary as an elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky. The school counted 476 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5.
Rutherford Elementary is part of Jefferson County, where 167 schools serve 95,124 students.
Of every 100 students at Rutherford Elementary, about 42 are Black, the largest group. After that, the student body is 33% Hispanic, 13% White, 8% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Jefferson County is about 21% Black. A diversity index of 69% means there is a 69% chance two randomly chosen students at Rutherford Elementary are from different groups.
Staffing at Rutherford Elementary comes to 20.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 23.4:1. Elementary schools in Kentucky have an average ratio of 15.4:1. On the income side, 78% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Jefferson County averages 61%, lower than here.
Among Kentucky public elementary schools, Rutherford Elementary outscored 0%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Rutherford Elementary is -25.3 points, in the bottom 10% of Kentucky. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 10.9%, and the predicted rate is 36.2%.
The school's county is Jefferson County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $69,866, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jefferson County's 175 public schools enroll about 95,579 students and include Rutherford Elementary.
Among nearby public schools, Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South is closest at about 0.5 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 17.8%, higher than Rutherford Elementary's 10.9%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 7%, from 446 to 476. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 23.4:1, from 13.9:1.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
783,022
Census ACS
Median income
$69,866
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
175
95,579 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County
- Ballard HighHigh · 2,148 students
- duPont Manual HighHigh · 1,899 students
- Marion C. Moore SchoolHigh · 1,892 students
- Eastern HighHigh · 1,790 students
- Pleasure Ridge Park HighHigh · 1,777 students
- Louisville Male HighHigh · 1,763 students
Other schools in Louisville
- Ballard HighHigh · 2,148 students
- duPont Manual HighHigh · 1,899 students
- Marion C. Moore SchoolHigh · 1,892 students
- Pleasure Ridge Park HighHigh · 1,777 students
- Louisville Male HighHigh · 1,763 students
- Southern HighHigh · 1,725 students
Other Rutherford Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Rutherford Elementary. Rutherford Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Rutherford Elementary SchoolMESQUITE, TX · 803 students
- RUTHERFORD ELEMENTARYSTILLWATER, MN · 573 students
- Rutherford Elementary SchoolHarrisburg, PA · 461 students
- Rutherford ElementaryRutherford, TN · 282 students
Nearby schools
- Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South0.5 mi · 543
- Iroquois High0.7 mi · 1,301
- Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North1.1 mi · 470
- Hazelwood Elementary1.1 mi · 527
- Semple Elementary1.6 mi · 592
- Jacob Elementary2.0 mi · 519
Frequently asked questions
About Rutherford ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Rutherford Elementary?
Rutherford Elementary enrolls approximately 476 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Rutherford Elementary serve?
Rutherford Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Rutherford Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rutherford Elementary is approximately 23.4:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Rutherford Elementary?
At Rutherford Elementary, the student body is approximately 13% White, 33% Hispanic, 42% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Rutherford Elementary?
Rutherford Elementary is overseen by Jefferson County in Jefferson County.
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