Western High

Set in Louisville, Kentucky, Western High is a close-knit senior high, run under Jefferson County. It caters to 409 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 558.

Jefferson County runs 167 schools in total, collectively educating 95,124 students. Western High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Western High records that Black students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 19% White, 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $69,866, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Western High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Waller-Williams Environmental, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Western High has decreased 45%, going from 739 students in 2018 to 409 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 4% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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