duPont Manual High

Located at 120 W Lee St, in Louisville, Kentucky, duPont Manual High is a big 9-12 campus that teaches 1,899 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Jefferson County. That puts it 240% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 167 schools and 95,124 students, duPont Manual High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, duPont Manual High reports that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Asian, 19% Black, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 113 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, duPont Manual High sits in the top 10% of Kentucky schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.3%; actual is 77.8%, +21.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) reports that median household earnings sit near $69,866, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. duPont Manual High is one of 175 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 95,579 students).

Noe Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around duPont Manual High. On composite proficiency, duPont Manual High comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at duPont Manual High has stayed largely flat, going from 1,917 students in 2018 to 1,899 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 49% across the same window.

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