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Public schools in Louisville, Kentucky
...There are more than 145 public schools in Louisville, Kentucky, servicing nearly 100,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade (K–12) education. The primary public education provider is Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS).
Schools are typically categorized as elementary, middle or high schools, though some exceptions exist. J. Graham Brown School offers education for all grades in one school. Moore Traditional School is a combined middle and high school (formerly two separate schools). The Anchorage School is the sole school of AISD, educating for grades K-8.
Elementary schools
Public elementary schools provide education through fifth grade (approx. age 11, depending on the student). Some elementary schools offer pre-kindergarten programs.
| Picture | School name | Opening date[1] | Origin of name and other information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atkinson Elementary School | 1902 | Joseph B. Atkinson, longtime city school board member. | |
| Auburndale Elementary School | 1924 | Located in Auburndale neighborhood. | |
|
Audubon Traditional Elementary School | 1954 |
John J. Audubon, painter and bird enthusiast. |
| Bates Elementary School | 1955 | James H. Bates, longtime chairman of the Jefferson County Board of Education.
Home of Safety City (a miniaturized city with 'go-cart' automobiles designed to teach students safe habits). | |
| Blake Elementary School | 1970 | ||
| Bloom Elementary School (originally Enterprise) | 1896 | I.N. Bloom; physician, City of Louisville Board of Education member 1911–1922, and first Board president. | |
| Blue Lick Elementary School | 1966 | Located on Blue Lick Road. | |
| Bowen Elementary School | 1969 | Known as "The greatest school on earth". | |
| Albert S. Brandeis Elementary School | 1913 | Albert S. Brandeis. | |
| Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School | 1999 | Merger of John C. Breckinridge Elementary and Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in 2000. | |
| Byck Elementary School | 1961 | Dann Conrad Byck, member of the Louisville Board of Aldermen and member of the City of Louisville Board of Education 1955–1959. | |
| Camp Taylor Elementary School | 1917 | Located in Camp Taylor neighborhood, site of Camp Zachary Taylor 1917–1921. | |
| Cane Run Elementary School[2] | 1832[3] | Located on Cane Run Road. The school was originally housed in a log cabin, and may have had as many of seven different buildings. Present building constructed in 1972. | |
| Carter Traditional School | 1918 | Jessie R. Carter. | |
| Chancey Elementary School[4] | 2002 | Malcom B. Chancey, local business leader who established the Jefferson County Public Education Foundation. | |
| Chenoweth Elementary School | 1954 | Located near Chenoweth Lane. | |
| Cochran Elementary School | 1900 | Gavin H. Cochran. | |
| Cochrane Elementary School | 1968 | Garland S. Cochrane. | |
| Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary School | 1969[5] | Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. | |
| Coral Ridge Elementary School | 1971 | Located in the Coral Ridge neighborhood. | |
| Crums Lane Elementary School | 1962 | Located on Crums Lane. | |
| Dixie Elementary School | 1960 | Located behind Valley Traditional High School, on Dixie Highway. | |
| Dunn Elementary School | 1972 | ||
| Eisenhower Elementary School | 1972 | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. | |
| Engelhard Elementary School | 1919 | Victor S. Engelhard. Located in Old Louisville; 1004 South First Street, Louisville, KY 40203. | |
| Fairdale Elementary School | 1913 | Located in the Fairdale community. | |
| Farmer Elementary School | 2007 | James E. Farmer,[6] teacher, principal and deputy superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools until 1976.[7] | |
| Fern Creek Elementary School | 1911[3] | Located in the Fern Creek community. The earliest building directly related to the present school was constructed in 1911. There was first a log-cabin school was opened in area around 1792. That building, however, cannot be directly linked to the present-day school. | |
| Field Elementary School | 1915 | Judge Emmet Field. | |
| Foster Academy | 1917 | Composer Stephen Foster ("My Old Kentucky Home"). | |
| Frayser Elementary School | 1925 | Nannie Lee Frayser. | |
| Gilmore Lane Elementary School | 1955 | located on Gilmore Lane. | |
| Goldsmith Elementary School | 1955 | Located on Goldsmith Lane. Goldsmith is an International/Cultural Studies magnet. Southeast Christian Church, now one of the largest Protestant churches in the U.S., held its first service at the school in July 1962, and met there until it purchased its first property in October of that year.[8] | |
| Greathouse/Shryock Traditional Elementary School | 1980 | Created with the merger of Greathouse Elementary (named for longtime teacher and principal Miss Tommie Greathouse) and Shryock Elementary (named for Gideon Shryock, architect). | |
| Greenwood Elementary School | 1957[9] | Located on Greenwood Road. | |
| Gutermuth Elementary School | 1970 | Leona Gutermuth. | |
| Hartstern Elementary School | 1969 | Fred J. Hartstern, chief architect of the old Louisville Board of Education. He later created his own firm which designed over 45 school buildings including Ballard and Moore High Schools. | |
| Hawthorne Elementary School | 1954 | Located in Hawthorne neighborhood. | |
|
Hazelwood Elementary School | 1951[10] | Located in Iroquois Homes/Hazelwood neighborhood. |
|
Hite Elementary School | 1963 | Jane Glass Hite (longtime educator). Located in Middletown behind Eastern High School. |
| Indian Trail Elementary School | 1959 | Located on Indian Trail. | |
| Jacob Elementary School | 1932 | Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky Richard Taylor Jacob. | |
|
Jeffersontown Elementary School | 1870s | Located in the city of Jeffersontown. |
| Johnsontown Road Elementary School | 1967[11] | Located on Johnsontown Road. | |
| Kennedy Montessori School | 1964 | U.S. President John F. Kennedy, named the year after his November 1963 assassination. | |
| Kenwood Elementary School | 1955 | Located in Kenwood neighborhood. | |
| Kerrick Elementary School | 1876 | Charles H., George, and Harry Kerrick who donated land for the original school. | |
| King Elementary School | 1969 | Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., named the year after his April 1968 assassination. | |
| Klondike Lane Elementary School | 1971 | Located on Klondike Lane. | |
| Laukhuf Elementary School | 1974 | Louis H.C. & Emily Laukhuf (educators for 55+1⁄2 years; 33+1⁄2 years in Jefferson County). | |
| Layne Elementary School | 1969 | Offers an academic Honors Program for third, fourth, and fifth graders in reading and math. | |
| Lincoln Elementary School | 1966 | U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. | |
| Lowe Elementary School | 1974 | John Lowe (retired principal from Lyndon Elementary and Waggener High School). | |
| Luhr Elementary School | 1966 | Mattie B. Luhr. | |
| Maupin Elementary School | 1985 | Originally Parkland Elementary School, was renamed for Milburn Taylor Maupin, first African-American central office administrator in the Louisville Public Schools. He served as interim superintendent January–June 1975 and retired as deputy superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools in 1978. | |
| McFerran Preparatory Academy | 1919 | John B. McFerran, land company president who donated land for Jeffersontown Elementary. | |
| Medora Elementary School | 1880s | Located in Medora neighborhood. | |
| Middletown Elementary School | 1909 | Located in the city of Middletown. | |
| Mill Creek Elementary School | bef. 1876[3] | Earliest records place the school's existence on/or before 1876. The current building was opened in 1970. | |
| Minors Lane Elementary School | 1968 | Located on Minors Lane. | |
| Norton Elementary School | 1967 | Jane M. Norton, former school board member and WAVE-TV president. | |
| Okolona Elementary School | 1924 | Located in Okolona community. Formerly known as Okolona High School from 1927 to 1951. | |
| Portland Elementary School | 1853[12] | Located in Portland neighborhood. | |
| Price Elementary School | 1969 | Sarah Jacob Price, school's first principal. | |
|
Rangeland Elementary School | Located on Rangeland Road. | |
| Roosevelt-Perry Elementary School | 1979 | Formed as result of merger between the Roosevelt School and Perry Elementary school in 1979. The original schools were named for U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Perry Sr. (principal of the Western Colored School 1891–1927), respectively. | |
| Rutherford Elementary School | 1951 | Sally B. Rutherford. | |
| St. Matthews Elementary School | 1955 | Located at 601 Browns Lane in the city of St. Matthews. St. Matthews current principal is Mr. Scott Collier. | |
| Sanders Elementary School | 1962 | Provides specialized instrumental programs, including band, orchestra, and the Weisberg Suzuki Violin Program. | |
| Schaffner Traditional School | 1955 | Named after Henry B. Schaffner, member of the Kentucky Board of Education. | |
| Semple Elementary School | 1932 | Named for Louisville-born geographer Ellen Churchill Semple. | |
| Shacklette Elementary School | 1966 | ||
| Shelby Traditional Academy | before 1850 | First Governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby.
The school was originally constructed by German immigrants. It was purchased by the Louisville Board of Education in 1868. The name (formerly Shelby Elementary) and mission of the school were changed in 2008. | |
|
Slaughter Elementary School | 1967 | Horace B. Slaughter. |
| Smyrna Elementary School | 1961 | Located in Smyrna neighborhood. | |
| Stonestreet Elementary School | 1958 | Rosa Phillips Stonestreet, only female superintendent in the history of public education in Louisville's old City Board of Education. | |
| Stopher Elementary School | 2007 | Joseph E. Stopher,[6] attorney and president of Gheens Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting education projects.[13] | |
| Trunnell Elementary School | 1967 | Bertha Trunnell,[6] long time educator in Jefferson County's south end. Trunnell's dedication ceremony took place on October 19, 1967. The school was built on farmland purchased from Clem Wiser. The Wiser family had farmed the land for 150 years. It was first settled by Charles Wiser in the 1800s (decade). | |
| Tully Elementary School | 1978 | Roberta B. Tully.
Located on College Drive in Jeffersontown, KY on the site of the original Jeffersontown Elementary. | |
| Watson Lane Elementary School | 1956 | Located on Watson Lane. | |
| Watterson Elementary School | 1970 | Henry Watterson, prominent Louisville newspaper editor and namesake of the Watterson Expressway. | |
| Wellington Elementary School | 1968 | Sara Belle Wellington. | |
| Wheatley Elementary School | 1911 | Phillis Wheatley, former slave and poet (first African American woman to publish a book of poetry). | |
| Wheeler Elementary School | 1969 | Virginia Wheeler. | |
| Wilder Elementary School | 1957 | Ninde S. Wilder. | |
| Wilkerson Elementary School | 1956 | Sylvia Wilkerson. | |
| Wilt Elementary School | 1967 | Paxton Wilt: Wilt is named for Paxton M. Wilt, a Jefferson County Board of Education member and executive with the Brown and Williamson company. | |
| Young Elementary School | 1971 | Whitney Moore Young Jr., social worker and civil rights leader, became executive director of the National Urban League in 1961 and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. | |
| Zachary Taylor Elementary School | 1959 | U.S. President Zachary Taylor, finished on November 9, 1959, located in Westport Road. |
Middle schools
Middle schools provide education for grades 6–8, typically ages 11–14.
| Picture | School name | Opening date[14] | Origin of name and other information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barret Traditional Middle School | 1932 | Alex G. Barret, Louisville Board of Education member (president in 1918) and Jefferson Circuit Court Judge. | |