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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Thomas Jefferson Middle administration to hear?
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Enrollment
943
Middle
DISTRICT 761 · STATE 558
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000682
Thomas Jefferson Middle
1501 Rangeland Road, Louisville, KY 40219 · (502) 485-8273 · Jefferson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL943 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Kentucky public middle 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
708 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 323 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 262 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 358 | 38% |
Student demographics
67%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
15.3%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
12.0%
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 12 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
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.2%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% 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 Thomas Jefferson Middle
Thomas Jefferson Middle's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Middle this school | 943 | 75.1% | 13.9% |
| Knight Middle Louisville | 757 | 71.9% | 19.1% |
| Lassiter Middle Louisville | 921 | 73.8% | 20.2% |
| Winburn Middle School Lexington | 768 | 65.4% | 28.3% |
| Stuart Middle School Louisville | 1,166 | 72.6% | 14.6% |
| Holmes Middle School Covington | 631 | 83.5% | 23.7% |
Matched among Kentucky middle 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 Thomas Jefferson Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #214 of 216 | #20 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #213 of 216 | #19 of 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #215 of 217 | #21 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 943 | #14 of 221 | #5 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #29 of 210 | #5 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.0% | #30 of 210 | #16 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.1% | #19 of 219 | #4 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #132 of 156 | #17 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
943
-113 (-11%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 1,304
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 943 | 68.5 | 13.8:1 | 75% (708) |
| 2023-24 | 894 | 67.2 | 13.3:1 | 70% (629) |
| 2022-23 | 892 | 66 | 13.5:1 | 72% (641) |
| 2020-21 | 1,056 | 73 | 14.5:1 | 73% (775) |
| 2017-18 | 992 | 62 | 16.0:1 | 84% (829) |
| 2015-16 | 857 | 54 | 15.9:1 | 70% (601) |
| 2010-11 | 981 | 63 | 15.6:1 | 84% (827) |
| 2000-01 | 1,206 | 64 | 18.8:1 | 54% (649) |
| 1990-91 | 1,304 | 69 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (992 to 943); teachers up 10% (62 to 68.5).
About Thomas Jefferson Middle
Thomas Jefferson Middle, a high-enrollment middle school, is located in Louisville, Kentucky. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 943 students in 2024-25. The school is 69% bigger than the average for middle schools in Kentucky.
Enrollment across the 167 schools in Jefferson County totals 95,124 students.
The largest group at Thomas Jefferson Middle is Hispanic students, at 46%. After that, the student body is 31% Black, 16% White, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Jefferson County is about 9% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 67%.
Thomas Jefferson Middle lists 68.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.8 students per teacher. Across middle schools in Kentucky, the average ratio is 15.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 75% of the student body. The gap from the 61% average for public schools in Jefferson County is 14 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Thomas Jefferson Middle lands at F, ahead of 1% of Kentucky public middle schools.
After accounting for student poverty, Thomas Jefferson Middle is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 13.9% is 23.3 points below the 37.2% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Looking at the county, Jefferson County, median household income comes to about $69,866, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. The county's public schools total 175, with about 95,579 students.
The closest school to Thomas Jefferson Middle is Thomas Jefferson Early Childhood Center, located less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Thomas Jefferson Middle. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Thomas Jefferson Middle ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Thomas Jefferson Middle is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 943, down from 1,056 in 2020-21.
Thomas Jefferson Middle has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Thomas Jefferson Middle schools
17 other US public schools in 12 states are named Thomas Jefferson Middle. Thomas Jefferson Middle is the 4th largest of the 18.
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolFAIR LAWN, NJ · 1,100 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolEDISON, NJ · 954 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMadera, CA · 948 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLEJEFFERSON CITY, MO · 927 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleWinston-Salem, NC · 808 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Early Childhood Center0.0 mi · 57
- George Unseld Early Childhood Center0.2 mi · 266
- Rangeland Elementary0.6 mi · 532
- Indian Trail Elementary0.6 mi · 649
- Price Elementary0.9 mi · 470
- Slaughter Elementary1.0 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Thomas Jefferson Middle?
Thomas Jefferson Middle enrolls approximately 943 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Thomas Jefferson Middle serve?
Thomas Jefferson Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Thomas Jefferson Middle have?
Thomas Jefferson Middle employs 69 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Thomas Jefferson Middle?
Student demographics at Thomas Jefferson Middle are roughly 16% White, 46% Hispanic, 31% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Thomas Jefferson Middle in?
Thomas Jefferson Middle is part of Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.