The Academy @ Shawnee

The Academy @ Shawnee, a roomy secondary school in Louisville, Kentucky, operated by Jefferson County, serves 1,051 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That puts it 88% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Jefferson County comprises 167 schools with combined enrollment of 95,124 students; The Academy @ Shawnee is among them.

In terms of who attends, The Academy @ Shawnee lists that Black students make up the majority at 78%. Other groups include 13% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 21% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, The Academy @ Shawnee has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 61%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The Academy @ Shawnee is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.4%; The Academy @ Shawnee posts 10.4%, -22.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. The Academy @ Shawnee is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

The closest other public school is Dr. J. Blaine Hudson Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, The Academy @ Shawnee comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Academy @ Shawnee has climbed 53%, going from 686 students in 2018 to 1,051 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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