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What's the biggest difference between Wellington Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
418
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000701
Wellington Elementary
4800 Kaufman Lane, Louisville, KY 40216 · (502) 485-8343 · Jefferson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL418 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% 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.
- DBeats 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
17.2:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
328 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
64%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
21.7%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
17.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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
20.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.9%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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 Wellington Elementary
Wellington Elementary's state test result (20.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington Elementary this school | 418 | 78.5% | 20.0% |
| Crums Lane Elementary Louisville | 457 | 80.7% | 16.6% |
| Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary Louisville | 399 | 78.4% | 25.4% |
| Cane Run Elementary Louisville | 401 | 83.0% | N/A |
| Jacob Elementary Louisville | 519 | 82.7% | 13.1% |
| Semple Elementary Louisville | 592 | 76.7% | 18.7% |
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 Wellington Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #637 of 669 | #62 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #644 of 668 | #66 of 84 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #648 of 674 | #66 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 418 | #398 of 744 | #68 of 99 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #598 of 674 | #67 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.9% | #124 of 674 | #56 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.5% | #128 of 721 | #26 of 93 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #209 of 437 | #27 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
418
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 639
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 418 | 24.3 | 17.2:1 | 78% (328) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 26.6 | 15.7:1 | 74% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 27.3 | 15.1:1 | 77% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 71% (298) |
| 2017-18 | 481 | 29.8 | 16.2:1 | 79% (378) |
| 2015-16 | 497 | 28 | 17.8:1 | 87% (430) |
| 2010-11 | 470 | 30 | 15.7:1 | 85% (400) |
| 2000-01 | 457 | N/A | N/A | 83% (379) |
| 1990-91 | 639 | 36 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wellington Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (481 to 418); teachers down 18% (29.8 to 24.3).
About Wellington Elementary
Wellington Elementary is a public elementary school run by Jefferson County in Louisville, Kentucky. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 418 students.
Wellington Elementary is a school in Jefferson County. The district has 167 schools and 95,124 students.
Roughly 52% of students at Wellington Elementary are Black. Other groups include 21% White, 20% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County residents are about 21% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 24.3 full-time positions, a ratio of 17.2:1. That is higher than the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in Kentucky. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 78%. Among public schools in Jefferson County, the average eligibility rate is 61%.
allk12 grades Wellington Elementary an F. The grade compares the school only with Kentucky public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Kentucky with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 35.9%. Wellington Elementary posts 20.0%, 16.0 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In Jefferson County (population about 783,022), the median household income is $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. There are 175 public schools in Jefferson County, enrolling about 95,579 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, Farnsley Middle is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Wellington Elementary. Its average proficiency rate of 20.0% is below the 20.7% average for nearby schools.
Wellington Elementary has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 421 in 2020-21, 418 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.0:1 to 17.2:1 over the same years.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Wellington Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Wellington Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named Wellington Elementary. Wellington Elementary is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Wellington ElementaryLexington, KY · 608 students
- WELLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWELLINGTON, FL · 897 students
- Wellington Elementary SchoolFLOWER MOUND, TX · 731 students
- Wellington ElementaryWoodinville, WA · 380 students
- Wellington Elementary SchoolWELLINGTON, TX · 238 students
Nearby schools
- Farnsley Middle0.3 mi · 919
- Western High1.0 mi · 409
- Waller-Williams Environmental1.1 mi · 64
- Crums Lane Elementary1.4 mi · 457
- Conway Middle1.6 mi · 678
- Shacklette Elementary1.7 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About Wellington ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Wellington Elementary?
Wellington Elementary enrolls approximately 418 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Wellington Elementary serve?
Wellington Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Wellington Elementary have?
Wellington Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1.
How diverse is Wellington Elementary?
Wellington Elementary reports a student body of 21% White, 20% Hispanic, 52% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Wellington Elementary?
Wellington Elementary is overseen by Jefferson County in Jefferson County.
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