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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Bates Elementary, Louisville, KY

CEP schoolBates Elementary is a public elementary school in Louisville, part of Jefferson County Public Schools. It enrolled 585 students in 2024-25, with 16.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
585
Teachers (FTE)
36.0
Students per teacher
16.2
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 1.0 higher than the district figure of 15.2. The Kentucky average across schools is 15.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.2
District15.2
Kentucky15.6
United States15.3

School details

Address
7601 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40291
Phone
(502)485-8208
District
Jefferson County Public Schools
County
Jefferson County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
210299000650
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
254
Reduced-price lunch
24
Free or reduced-price lunch
27847.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
243Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Jefferson County Public Schools

Elementary schools elsewhere in Louisville

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.