The Phoenix School of Discovery

The Phoenix School of Discovery, a small high school in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the schools within Jefferson County, enrolls 383 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so The Phoenix School of Discovery sits 31% below that benchmark.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 167 schools and 95,124 students, The Phoenix School of Discovery is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, The Phoenix School of Discovery logs that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 26% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Jefferson County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at The Phoenix School of Discovery qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that median household earnings sit near $69,866, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), of which The Phoenix School of Discovery is one.

Lowe Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Phoenix School of Discovery.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. The Phoenix School of Discovery's enrollment has expanded 16% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 383). The White share of enrollment shrank from 66% to 61% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for The Phoenix School of Discovery typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.