Public schools in Louisville, Kentucky

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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); the City of Anchorage operates the Anchorage Independent School District (AISD), including one school, Anchorage School, for K-8 education.

Schools are typically categorized as elementary, middle or high schools, though some exceptions exist. The 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.

Contents 1 Elementary schools 2 Middle schools 3 High schools 4 Other/Combined 5 References

[edit] 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 Bates is the home of Safety City, an initiative to each students safe habits using a miniaturized city with go-carts for automobiles.
	Blake Elementary School	1970
	Bloom Elementary School	1896	I.N. Bloom; physician, city 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"
	Brandeis Elementary School	1913	Albert S. Brandeis
	Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School	1999	Merger of Breckinridge and Franklin Elementary Schools in 2000.
	Byck Elementary School	1961	Dann Conrad Byck, member of the Louisville Board of Aldermen and member of the city 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	1832[2]	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	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 Elementary School	1969[3]	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, which is on Dixie Highway.
	Dunn Elementary School	1972
	Eisenhower Elementary School	1972	Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. President and general.
	Engelhard Elementary School	1919
	Fairdale Elementary School	1913	Located in Fairdale.
	Farmer Elementary School	2007	James E. Farmer[4], teacher, principal and deputy superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools until 1976[5].
	Fern Creek Elementary School	1911[2]	Located in Fern Creek. The earliest building directly related to the present school was constructed in 1911, though a log-cabin school was opened in 1792 in the area. This building, however, cannot be directly linked to the present-day school.
	Field Elementary School	1915	Emmet Field
	Foster Academy	1917	Stephen Foster, Kentucky composer.
	Frayser Elementary School	1925	Nannie Lee Frayser
	Gilmore Lane Elementary School	1955	Located on Gilmore Lane.
	Goldsmith Elementary School	1955	Located on Goldsmith Lane.
	Greathouse/Shryock Traditional Elementary School	1980	Merger of Greathouse Elementary (named for longtime teacher and principal Miss Tommie Greathouse) and Shryock Elementary (named for architect Gideon Shryock).
	Greenwood Elementary School	1957[6]	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 who 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[7]	Located in Hazelwood neighborhood.
	Hite Elementary School	1963	Jane Glass Hite
	Indian Trail Elementary School	1959	Located on Indian Trail.
	Jacob Elementary School	1932
	Jeffersontown Elementary School	1870s	Located in Jeffersontown.
	Johnsontown Road Elementary School	1967[8]	Located on Johnsontown Road.
	Kennedy Montessori School	1964	U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
	Kenwood Elementary School	1955	Located in Kenwood neighborhood.
	Kerrick Elementary School	1876	C.H., George, and Harry Kerrick who donated land for original school.
	King Elementary School	1969	Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr..
	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
	Lincoln Elementary School	1966	U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
	Lowe Elementary School	1974
	Luhr Elementary School	1966	Mattie B. Luhr
	Maupin Elementary School	1985	Originally Parkland Elementary School, renamed for Milburn Taylor Maupin, first African-American central office administrator in the Louisville Public Schools. 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 Middletown.
	Mill Creek Elementary School	bef. 1876[2]	Earliest records place schools existence on or before 1876. The current building was opened in 1970.
	Minors Lane Elementary School	1968	Located on Minors Lane.
	Norton Elementary School	1917	Former school board member and WAVE Television president Jane M. Norton.
	Okolona Elementary School	1924	Located in Okolona neighborhood.
	Portland Elementary School	1853[9]	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. Named for President Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Perry, Sr., principal of the Western Colored School 1891-1927.
	Rutherford Elementary School	1951	Named after Sally B. Rutherford.
	St. Matthews Elementary School	1955	Located in St. Matthews neighborhood.
	Sanders Elementary School	1962
	Schaffner Traditional School	1955	Named after Henry B. Schaffner, member of the Kentucky Board of Education for a time.
	Semple Elementary School	1932	Named for Ellen Churchill Semple in 1932, geographer and educator who was a member of a group of scholars advising Woodrow Wilson for the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. This school has a reading and math average under the school district and state average. A LOT of people don't recommend to go to that school.		Shacklette Elementary School	1966
	Shelby Elementary School	bef. 1850	Isaac Shelby, Kentucky's first governor. The school was originally constructed by German immigrants. It was purchased by the Louisville Board of Education in 1868.
	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, Kentucky.
	Stopher Elementary School	2007	Joseph E. Stopher[4], attorney and president of Gheens Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting education projects[10].
	Trunnell Elementary School	1967
	Tully Elementary School	1978	Roberta B. Tully. Built on 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, for whom the Watterson Expressway is also named.
	Wellington Elementary School	1968	Sara Belle Wellington
	Wheatley Elementary School	1911	Phillis Wheatley, Former slave, 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
	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 Medal of Freedom in 1969.
	Zachary Taylor Elementary School	1959	U.S. President Zachary Taylor.

[edit] Middle schools

Middle schools provide education for grades 6-8, typically ages 11-14.

Picture	School name	Opening date[11]	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.
	Carrithers Middle School	1973	Named after Virginia P. Carrithers
	Conway Middle School	1972	Aubrey Conway, Jefferson County Board of Education member and community advocate.
	Crosby Middle School	1974[12]	Only middle school in Kentucky with Piano Laboratory and piano class as an elective.
	Farnsley Middle School	1998	School built on historic land of David Farnsley.
	Frost Middle School	1966[13]	Robert Frost
	Highland Middle School	1928	Located in Highlands neighborhood.
	Iroquois Middle School	1973	Located in Iroquois neighborhood. Now an all- girls school, and renamed as Fredrick Law Olmsted Academy South.
	Jefferson County Traditional Middle School	1976	Third site of the first Traditional Program middle school in Jefferson County, located in the building of the former Woerner Alternative Middle School which had previously been the J.M. Atherton High School for Girls.A school of integrity
	Thomas Jefferson Middle School	1981	Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States.Previously Thomas Jefferson High School 1964-1981.
	Johnson Traditional Middle School	1930, 1981[14]	Originally named Parkland Junior High School; renamed in 1981 in honor of Lyman Tefft Johnson, a civil rights leader and educator, teacher at Central High School for 33 years and former assistant principal at Parkland Junior High School. He was the principal plaintiff in the federal court case regarding the desegregation of schools in Jefferson County. Served as Board Member 1978-1982.
	Kammerer Middle School	1972	Named after Margaret Kammerer, a former music educator in the Jefferson County Public school system.
	Kennedy Metro Middle School	1996	Alex R. Kennedy, previously Alex R. Kennedy Elementary School.
	Knight Middle School	1973	Named for Theron Turner Knight, a 42-year Jefferson County educator.[15]
	Lassiter Middle School	1973	O.M. Lassiter
	Meyzeek Middle School	1967, 1977[16]	Originally named Jackson Junior High, renamed in honor of Albert Ernest Meyzeek, civil rights activist and educator who served as the school's principal for a number of years. Was one of the founders of the Louisville Urban League, which he chaired for 29 years. Served on the state Board of Education 1948-1956.
	Myers Middle School	1972	Mary P. Myers
	Newburg Middle School		Located in Newburg neighborhood.
	Noe Middle School	1974	Samuel V. Noe, former superintendent of the old Louisville Public School District.
	Southern Leadership Academy	1928	Located in Southern Louisville. Renamed from Southern Middle School to Southern Leadership Academy to reflect revised class organization of single-gender classes. Now recognized as an all- boys school, renamed as Fredrick Law Olmsted Academy North.
	Stuart Middle School	1980	Jesse Stuart, distinguished Kentucky poet and novelist. Previously Stuart High School.
	Western Middle School	1929[17]	Located in Western Louisville.
	Westport Traditional Middle School and Fine Arts Academy	1961[18]	Located on Westport Road. Previously Westport High School.

[edit] High schools

High school begins at grade 9 (approx. age 14), running through grade 12 (approx. age 18).

Picture	School name	Opening date	Origin of name and other information
	Atherton High School	1923	J.M. Atherton High School for Girls (at different location). Named after John McDougal Atherton, a local businessman and politician instrumental in changing Louisville's school system administration from trustees to a board of education.[19]
	Ballard High School	1968
	Breckinridge Metropolitan High School	2001	Previous site of Breckinridge Elementary School, structured learning environment for students with disciplinary problems and those ordered by court to attend.
	Buechel Metropolitan High School	1983	Located at the former Bashford Manor Middle School in the Buechel neighborhood, structured learning environment for students with disciplinary issues.
	Butler Traditional High School	1954	Suda E. Butler
	Central High School MCA	1882	Originally called the Central Colored High School, Louisville's first African-American high school.
	Doss High School MCA	1967	Harry Doss
	DuPont Manual High School	1892	Originally called duPont Manual Training High School, named for Alfred Victor duPont, a local entrepreneur. Was Louisville Girls High until 1948
	Eastern High School	1950	Located in Eastern Jefferson County.
	Fairdale High School MCA	1958	Located in Fairdale.
	Fern Creek Traditional High School	1923[20]	Located in the Fern Creek neighborhood.
	Iroquois High School MCA		Located in the Iroquois neighborhood near Iroquois Park. This facility was formerly Gottschalk Junior High School [21]
	Jeffersontown High School MCA	1925, 1966	Located in Jeffersontown. A fire in the 1940s that heavily damaged the gym and cafeteria, plus the opening of Eastern High School in 1950 caused the high school to be closed. The original building (located on same lot as present-day Tully Elementary) was used as an elementary school until it was demolished in 1975. Re-established at present location in 1966 following petition by residents of Jeffersontown.
	Jefferson County High School	1986	Established in 1986 as an open-entry/open-exit program, allowing students to obtain a diploma through flexible scheduling. Also operates JCPS's Independent Study office.
	Liberty High School	1997	Opened in 1997 at the site of now-closed Bruce Middle School, serving as a non-traditional program for students needing an alternative educational environment, especially those who have encountered academic difficulties.
	Louisville Male High School	1856	Originally only accepted boys as students (there was a Louisville Female High School). In 1952, when the schools merged, name was changed to Louisville Male and Girls High School, but was reverted due to protests by faculty, alumni and students of both genders. Previously Durrett High School.
	Pleasure Ridge Park High School MCA	1952	Located in the Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood.
	Seneca High School MCA	1957
	Shawnee High School MCA	1928[22]	Located in the Shawnee neighborhood.
	Southern High School MCA	1951[23]	Located in Southern Jefferson County.
	Valley Traditional High School	1937	Located in Valley Station.
	Waggener Traditional High School	1954	Mayme S. Waggener, principal of Greathouse Elementary School 1918-1946.
	Western MST Magnet High School	1961[24]	Located in Western Jefferson County.
	Youth Performing Arts School	1977	Established in 1977, offers extensive instruction in performing arts, providing academic classes through duPont Manual High School.

[edit] Other/Combined

School name	Opening date	Origin of name and other information
The Anchorage School		Operated by the Anchorage Independent School District and offering K-8 education.
The Brown School	1972	Offers K-12 education Named after James Graham Brown, a local real estate developer, horse breeder and philanthropist.
Moore Traditional School	1969	Marion C. Moore, an educator in Jefferson County and teacher and administrator at Fern Creek High School 1926-1967. Moore Traditional Middle School added in 1999. Now operates officially as a combined school with a single principal.

[edit] References

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