High · Kentucky
Southern High
Free meals for allSouthern High, a public high school in Louisville, Kentucky: grades 9–12, 1,725 students, 17.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Jefferson County.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,725
- Teachers (FTE)
- 98.2
- Students per teacher
- 17.6
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in Kentucky
Median 15.5 · 353 schools compared
More students per teacher than 71% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 95% of high schools in Kentucky
Median 450 · 356 schools compared
Larger than 89% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large city
- Run by
- Jefferson County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Jefferson County.
Location
- Address
- 8620 Preston Highway, Louisville, KY 40219
- Phone
- (502)485-8330
- City or town
- Louisville/Jefferson County
- County
- Jefferson County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Marion C. Moore SchoolFree meals for all | 6–12 | 1,892 | 14.3 |
Mary Ryan AcademySpecial educationFree meals for all | 9–12 | 16 | 3.1 |
W.E.B. DuBois AcademyAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 477 | 12.7 |
Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent ProgramAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 43 | 2.2 |
Liberty HighAlternativeFree meals for all | 7–12 | 100 | 3.5 |
Fairdale HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,405 | 15.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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