High · Kentucky

Western High

Free meals for all

Western High, a public high school in Louisville, Kentucky: grades 9–12, 409 students, 12.2 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
409
Teachers (FTE)
33.6
Students per teacher
12.2
Grades
9–12
High

Fewer students per teacher than 70% of high schools in Kentucky

Median 15.5 · 353 schools compared

Fewer students per teacher than 66% of high schools in the US

Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared

Smaller than 52% of high schools in Kentucky

Median 450 · 356 schools compared

Larger than 50% 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 suburb

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Jefferson County.

Location

Address
2501 Rockford Lane, Louisville, KY 40216
Phone
(502)485-8344
City or town
Shively

Nearby high schools

The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

SchoolGradesStudentsStudents / teacher
Butler Traditional HighFree meals for all
9–121,29016.3
Doss HighFree meals for all
9–121,23516.6
Pleasure Ridge Park HighFree meals for all
9–121,77719.7
Iroquois HighFree meals for all
9–121,30116.1
Valley HighFree meals for all
9–1285014.2
U of L PACT ProgramSpecial education
12199.0

Sources

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.

NCES 210299000677