Young Elementary

Young Elementary is a very small elementary school in Kentucky, with an address in Louisville. It reported 100 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 421 students for elementary schools in Kentucky.

The district for Young Elementary is Jefferson County, with 167 schools and 95,124 students.

Black students are 85% of those enrolled at Young Elementary. Next come 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% White. That compares with about 21% Black among all Jefferson County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 27%.

Teacher count: 9.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.9:1. Compared with the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in Kentucky, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 89%. The average for public schools in Jefferson County is 61%.

For the population of Jefferson County, median household income comes to about $69,866, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Jefferson County counts 175 public schools with about 95,579 students.

Of the public schools around it, Young Elementary is closest to Dr. William H. Perry Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Young Elementary had 509 students in 2017-18 and 100 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. Among racial and ethnic groups, the biggest change was Black students, from 71% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.1:1 to 10.9:1.

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