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What do students at Wilder Elementary actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000661
Wilder Elementary
1913 Herr Lane, Louisville, KY 40222 · (502) 485-8350 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% of Kentucky public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
229 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 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (91).
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
59.0%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
48.3%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.9%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kentucky's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Wilder Elementary
Wilder Elementary's state test result (51.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilder Elementary this school | 496 | 46.2% | 51.4% |
| Bates Elementary Louisville | 585 | 47.5% | 46.9% |
| St Matthews Elementary Louisville | 598 | 41.5% | 47.2% |
| Dixie Elementary Magnet School Lexington | 584 | 49.8% | 40.7% |
| Audubon Traditional Elementary Louisville | 610 | 46.2% | 49.8% |
| Clark Elementary School Paducah | 615 | 46.5% | 59.7% |
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 Wilder Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #209 of 669 | #11 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #257 of 668 | #16 of 84 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #177 of 674 | #11 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #250 of 744 | #45 of 99 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #294 of 674 | #31 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #98 of 674 | #46 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.2% | #618 of 721 | #77 of 93 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #239 of 437 | #28 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
496
-34 (-6%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 496 | 34.2 | 14.5:1 | 46% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 522 | 34.6 | 15.1:1 | 46% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 550 | 35.3 | 15.6:1 | 49% (272) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 31 | 17.1:1 | 43% (230) |
| 2017-18 | 557 | 30.3 | 18.4:1 | 49% (274) |
| 2015-16 | 545 | 30 | 18.2:1 | 46% (250) |
| 2010-11 | 565 | 29 | 19.5:1 | 36% (202) |
| 2000-01 | 582 | N/A | N/A | 24% (137) |
| 1990-91 | 632 | 32 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilder Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (557 to 496); teachers up 13% (30.3 to 34.2).
About Wilder Elementary
Wilder Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky, under Jefferson County. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 496 students.
The district, Jefferson County, operates 167 schools serving 95,124 students.
Wilder Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 49%. Other students are 27% Black, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson County residents are about 63% White. Wilder Elementary has a diversity index of 67%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Dividing enrollment by its 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 14.5:1. Among elementary schools in Kentucky, the typical ratio is 15.4:1. Eligible students account for 46% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. The rate at public schools in Jefferson County averages 61%, higher than here.
Wilder Elementary is graded B by allk12, scoring above 64% of Kentucky public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, Wilder Elementary is 3.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Kentucky schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Jefferson County show that median household income is about $69,866, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Wilder Elementary is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County, which together enroll about 95,579 students.
The nearest public school is Ballard High, at about 0.4 miles. Wilder Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Wilder Elementary comes in 3rd of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 496, 6% below the 530 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 14.5:1, from 17.1:1.
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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 Wilder Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Wilder Elementary. Wilder Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 10.
- Wilder Elementary SchoolLITTLETON, CO · 592 students
- Wilder Elementary SchoolWesterville, OH · 491 students
- Wilder Elementary SchoolIndianola, IA · 456 students
- Wilder ElementaryGreen Bay, WI · 413 students
- WILDER ELEM.SPRINGFIELD, MO · 326 students
Nearby schools
- Ballard High0.4 mi · 2,148
- Kammerer Middle0.4 mi · 781
- Westport Middle1.2 mi · 988
- Dunn Elementary1.2 mi · 425
- The Brook-KMI1.5 mi · 29
- Norton Elementary1.7 mi · 716
Frequently asked questions
About Wilder ElementaryHow many students attend Wilder Elementary?
Wilder Elementary enrolls approximately 496 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Wilder Elementary serve?
Wilder Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Wilder Elementary have?
Wilder Elementary employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wilder Elementary?
At Wilder Elementary, the student body is approximately 49% White, 13% Hispanic, 27% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Wilder Elementary public or private?
Wilder Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.