Wilkerson Elementary School

Wilkerson Elementary School is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the schools within Jefferson County, caters to 541 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Wilkerson Elementary School sits 29% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Wilkerson Elementary School shows that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 28% Black, 22% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilkerson Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.5%; this one comes in at 21.1%, -18.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $69,866 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 175 public schools (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students), Wilkerson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Sanders Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilkerson Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wilkerson Elementary School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 24.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilkerson Elementary School has increased 17%, going from 462 students in 2018 to 541 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 40% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.