Western Day Treatment

Western Day Treatment is one of the micro-enrollment elementary campuss in Louisville, Kentucky, run under Jefferson County, with 14 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Western Day Treatment sits 97% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 167 schools in Jefferson County (95,124 students total), Western Day Treatment accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Western Day Treatment lists that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% White, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.1:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Western Day Treatment qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above 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, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Western Day Treatment is one campus in the mix.

Mcferran Preparatory Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Western Day Treatment.

Western Day Treatment operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 33%: 21 students in 2018 compared to 14 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 48% to 29%.

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