St Joseph Children's Home

As a micro-enrollment K-12 campus in Louisville, Kentucky, St Joseph Children's Home teaches 30 students from grades K through 9, overseen by Jefferson County. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 202 students each, so St Joseph Children's Home sits 85% below that benchmark.

Jefferson County comprises 167 schools with combined enrollment of 95,124 students; St Joseph Children's Home is among them.

On the student-mix side, St Joseph Children's Home logs that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household income runs about $69,866, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which St Joseph Children's Home is one.

Nearest neighbor: Barret Traditional Middle, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 36%: 22 students in 2018 compared to 30 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 18% to 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 6.3:1 in 2018 to 4.0:1 today.

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