Public school / Primary
St Matthews Elementary
Louisville, Kentucky
- NCES ID
- 210299000658
- District
- Jefferson County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
St Matthews Elementary is a public primary school in Louisville, Kentucky, run by Jefferson County. It enrols 563 students — the 30231st largest of 1,550 public schools in Kentucky.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
563
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
17.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
41.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Jefferson County
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Marion C. Moore School2,320 students
- 2Eastern High2,036 students
- 3Pathfinder School of Innovation2,030 students
- 4Ballard High2,014 students
- 5Louisville Male High1,991 students
- 6Dupont Manual High1,929 students
- 7Fern Creek High1,688 students
- 8Pleasure Ridge Park High1,517 students
- Enrollment+20.8%
- Teachers+10.3%
- Students per teacher+15.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−35.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory