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Enrollment
541
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 421
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 210299000660
Wilkerson Elementary School
5601 Johnsontown Road, Louisville, KY 40272 · (502) 485-8351 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL541 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of Kentucky public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
14.4:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
372 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 44% smaller than its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
71%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
24.7%
KY avg 47.9%
Math
18.0%
KY avg 42.8%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.5%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Kentucky schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Wilkerson Elementary School
Wilkerson Elementary School's state test result (21.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkerson Elementary School this school | 541 | 68.8% | 21.1% |
| Julius Marks Elementary School Lexington | 444 | 68.9% | 35.2% |
| Pembroke Elementary School Pembroke | 597 | 66.3% | 40.7% |
| Greenwood Elementary Louisville | 457 | 71.8% | 19.2% |
| Stonestreet Elementary Louisville | 517 | 69.6% | 23.9% |
| South Christian Elementary School Herndon | 554 | 65.3% | 46.8% |
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 Wilkerson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kentucky | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.1% | #627 of 669 | #57 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #640 of 668 | #64 of 84 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #638 of 674 | #62 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 541 | #184 of 744 | #32 of 99 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #284 of 674 | #29 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #55 of 674 | #28 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.8% | #311 of 721 | #55 of 93 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.1% | #51 of 233 | #11 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
541
+85 (+19%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 402
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 541 | 37.5 | 14.4:1 | 69% (372) |
| 2023-24 | 553 | 36.9 | 15.0:1 | 73% (406) |
| 2022-23 | 575 | 40.2 | 14.3:1 | 71% (409) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 34 | 13.4:1 | 66% (302) |
| 2017-18 | 462 | 32.3 | 14.3:1 | 75% (348) |
| 2015-16 | 455 | 28 | 16.3:1 | 73% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 32 | 16.1:1 | 73% (374) |
| 2000-01 | 378 | N/A | N/A | 68% (258) |
| 1990-91 | 402 | 22 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilkerson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (462 to 541); teachers up 16% (32.3 to 37.5).
About Wilkerson Elementary School
Wilkerson Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school found in Louisville, Kentucky. Enrollment stands at 541 students, covering pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 29% larger than the 421-student average for elementary schools in Kentucky.
Wilkerson Elementary School reports to Jefferson County, which has 167 schools and 95,124 students.
The largest group at Wilkerson Elementary School is White students, at 40%. Smaller groups are 28% Black, 22% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Jefferson County is roughly 63% White. The diversity index for Wilkerson Elementary School is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wilkerson Elementary School is 14.4:1, based on 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Kentucky, 15.4:1, is higher. Wilkerson Elementary School counts 69% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Wilkerson Elementary School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 4% of Kentucky public elementary schools.
Wilkerson Elementary School scores 18.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 21.1% actual versus 39.5% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Kentucky schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Jefferson County, where the median household earns about $69,866 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Wilkerson Elementary School shares Jefferson County with 174 other public schools.
Wilkerson Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Sanders Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. The five-mile area around Wilkerson Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Wilkerson Elementary School ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 21.1% versus a 24.0% average.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 19%, from 456 to 541. Students per teacher increased from 13.4 in 2020-21 to 14.4 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Wilkerson Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Wilkerson Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Wilkerson Elementary. Wilkerson Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Wilkerson Elementary SchoolWARREN, MI · 481 students
- Wilkerson ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 325 students
Nearby schools
- Sanders Elementary0.7 mi · 394
- Dixie Elementary1.0 mi · 370
- Johnsontown Road Elementary1.1 mi · 406
- Valley High1.1 mi · 850
- Eisenhower Elementary1.4 mi · 592
- Layne Elementary1.7 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About Wilkerson Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wilkerson Elementary School?
Wilkerson Elementary School enrolls approximately 541 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Wilkerson Elementary School serve?
Wilkerson Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wilkerson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wilkerson Elementary School is approximately 14.4:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wilkerson Elementary School?
At Wilkerson Elementary School, the student body is approximately 40% White, 22% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Wilkerson Elementary School public or private?
Wilkerson Elementary School 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.