Attendance at Jefferson County Public Schools plummeted Friday, the result of a “vague” threat called in to Louisville Metro Police the day before.
In the afternoon, JCPS revised the attendance figure to 45.5 percent for Friday — slightly worse than the 46.4 percent reported earlier in the day. The daily attendance rate for December was 93.6 percent.
Schools were on heightened security for the day because of the threat. Superintendent Donna Hargens said the absences amount to lost time with students and could affect learning.
JCPS has provided attendance rates for is schools on Friday. Excluding alternative schools, the schools with the lowest attendance rates were:
- Slaughter Elementary 25.29%
- Knight Middle School 27.10%
- Valley High School 27.43%
- Watson Lane Elementary 27.75%
- Stuart Middle 28.12%
The JCPS schools with the highest attendance rates were:
- Atherton High School 74.52%
- Cane Run Elementary 73.25%
- Greathouse Shryock Traditional 71.45%
- duPont Manual High 69.74%
- Brown School 69.32%
You can search for the attendance rates of other JCPS schools here:
| School | % Attended on Friday |
|---|---|
| Ackerly | 100.00% |
| Audubon Youth Development Center | 100.00% |
| Bellewood | 100.00% |
| Brooklawn | 100.00% |
| Heuser Hearing and Language Academy | 100.00% |
| Home of the Innocents Discovery | 100.00% |
| Jefferson County High School | 100.00% |
| Louisville Metro Youth Center | 100.00% |
| Peace Academy | 100.00% |
| St Joseph Children’s Home | 100.00% |
| The Brook-Dupont | 100.00% |
| The Brook-KMI | 100.00% |
| Home Hospital | 100.00% |
| Home of the Innocents School | 96.77% |
| Mary Jo and William MacDonald Maryhurst | 96.00% |
| Boys Haven | 76.92% |
| Atherton High School | 74.52% |
| Cane Run Elementary | 73.25% |
| Greathouse Shryock Traditional | 71.45% |
| duPont Manual High | 69.74% |
| Brown School | 69.32% |
| Bloom Elementary | 68.40% |
| Norton Elementary School | 68.35% |
| Stopher Elementary | 68.04% |
| Barret Traditional Middle | 67.29% |
| Brandeis Elementary | 66.76% |
| Louisville Male High School | 66.15% |
| Dunn Elementary School | 66.03% |
| Audubon Traditional Elementary | 63.88% |
| Wilder Elementary | 61.35% |
| Schaffner Elementary | 61.32% |
| Bowen Elementary | 61.30% |
| Hite Elementary School | 60.94% |
| Lowe Elementary School | 60.77% |
| St Matthews Elementary | 60.49% |
| Chenoweth Elementary School | 60.00% |
| U OF L Pact Program | 60.00% |
| WALLER ENVIRONMENTAL | 59.26% |
| Tully Elementary | 59.12% |
| Ballard High | 58.86% |
| Hawthorne Elementary | 58.61% |
| Noe Middle | 58.25% |
| Chancey Elementary School | 57.92% |
| Meyzeek Middle School | 57.49% |
| Churchill Park Rehab | 57.47% |
| Jefferson County Traditional Middle | 57.09% |
| Middletown Elementary | 57.05% |
| Field Elementary | 56.69% |
| Farmer Elementary | 56.22% |
| Louisville Day Treatment | 55.77% |
| ESL Newcomer Academy | 54.59% |
| Wheeler Elementary | 53.97% |
| MARY RYAN ACADEMY | 53.12% |
| Eastern High | 52.96% |
| Bates Elementary | 52.61% |
| Western Day Treatment | 51.85% |
| Crosby Middle School | 51.45% |
| Wilt Elementary | 51.43% |
| Ahrens Educational Resource | 51.28% |
| Alex Kennedy | 50.53% |
| Highland Middle School | 49.95% |
| Newburg Middle School | 48.72% |
| Carter Elementary | 48.46% |
| Coleridge-Taylor Elementary | 47.83% |
| Auburndale Elementary School | 47.70% |
| Engelhard Elementary | 47.07% |
| Fern Creek Elementary | 46.99% |
| Jeffersontown Elementary | 46.77% |
| Laukhuf Elementary | 46.65% |
| Kammerer Middle | 46.23% |
| Klondike Elementary | 45.92% |
| —District Total— | 45.50% |
| Mcferran Preparatory Academy | 45.17% |
| Watterson Elementary | 45.07% |
| Goldsmith Elementary | 44.98% |
| Kenwood Elementary | 44.77% |
| Wheatley Elementary | 44.48% |
| Foster Traditional Academy | 44.02% |
| Cochrane Elementary | 43.84% |
| Zachary Taylor Elementary | 43.72% |
| Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts | 43.49% |
| The Phoenix School of Discovery | 43.24% |
| Breckinridge/Franklin Elementary | 43.12% |
| Medora Elementary | 42.99% |
| Minors Lane Elementary | 42.92% |
| Hazelwood Elementary School | 42.90% |
| Mill Creek Elementary | 42.78% |
| Rutherford Elementary | 42.52% |
| Kennedy Elementary Montessori | 42.22% |
| Okolona Elementary School | 42.18% |
| Johnson Traditional Middle | 41.95% |
| Gilmore Lane Elementary | 41.81% |
| Smyrna Elementary | 41.64% |
| Luhr Elementary | 41.61% |
| Westport Middle School | 41.55% |
| Fairdale Elementary School | 40.98% |
| Cochran Elementary | 40.75% |
| Frayser Elementary | 40.58% |
| Maupin Elementary | 40.05% |
| BINET SCHOOL | 40.00% |
| Eisenhower Elementary School | 39.90% |
| Kerrick Elementary School | 39.81% |
| Farnsley Middle | 39.74% |
| Central High School | 39.71% |
| Wilkerson Elementary | 39.62% |
| Iroquois High | 39.44% |
| Coral Ridge Elementary | 39.07% |
| Wellington Elementary | 38.65% |
| Crums Lane Elementary | 38.55% |
| Western Middle | 38.47% |
| Shelby Traditional Academy | 38.00% |
| Butler Traditional High School | 37.91% |
| Semple Elementary | 37.88% |
| Jacob Elementary | 37.76% |
| Shacklette Elementary | 37.61% |
| Atkinson Academy | 37.50% |
| Hartstern Elementary | 37.42% |
| Fern Creek High School | 37.06% |
| Blake Elementary | 36.89% |
| Ramsey Middle School | 36.80% |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North | 36.65% |
| The Academy @ Shawnee | 36.62% |
| Carrithers Middle School | 36.42% |
| Rangeland Elementary | 36.41% |
| Indian Trail Elementary | 36.02% |
| Portland Elementary | 35.86% |
| Jeffersontown High School | 35.54% |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle | 35.47% |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Academy South | 35.33% |
| Layne Elementary | 35.29% |
| Sanders Elementary | 35.24% |
| King Elementary | 35.15% |
| Dixie Elementary | 35.08% |
| Gutermuth Elementary | 34.63% |
| South Park TAPP | 34.52% |
| Pleasure Ridge Park High | 34.06% |
| Johnsontown Road Elementary | 33.96% |
| Price Elementary | 33.86% |
| Roosevelt Perry Elementary | 33.55% |
| Western High School | 33.31% |
| Byck Elementary | 33.30% |
| Blue Lick Elementary | 32.99% |
| Camp Taylor Elementary | 32.95% |
| Moore Traditional School | 32.93% |
| Greenwood Elementary School | 32.82% |
| Young Elementary | 32.56% |
| Southern High School | 31.85% |
| Lassiter Middle School | 31.76% |
| Westport TAPP | 31.50% |
| Trunnell Elementary | 31.37% |
| Robert Frost Sixth-Grade Academy | 31.21% |
| Doss High | 30.21% |
| Conway Middle School | 30.12% |
| Seneca High | 29.96% |
| Fairdale High School | 29.70% |
| Stonestreet Elementary | 29.51% |
| Waggener High School | 29.30% |
| Myers Middle School | 28.35% |
| Stuart Middle | 28.12% |
| Watson Lane Elementary | 27.75% |
| Valley High School | 27.43% |
| Knight Middle School | 27.10% |
| Liberty High School | 26.45% |
| Slaughter Elementary | 25.29% |
| Minors Daniel | 24.61% |
| Breckinridge Metropolitan High | 21.52% |
| JCPS eSchool | 0.00% |