Wheeler Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Louisville, Kentucky, Wheeler Elementary teaches 626 students from grades K through 5, part of Jefferson County. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 49% bigger than typical.

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

Demographically, Wheeler Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 28% Black, 12% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Wheeler Elementary logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 45% of students at Wheeler Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Jefferson County's rate of about 61%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wheeler Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of +1.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Wheeler Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Carrithers Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wheeler Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

Wheeler Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wheeler Elementary has fell 4%, going from 654 students in 2018 to 626 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Wheeler Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.