Jeffersontown High School

What this school is

Jeffersontown sits at 9600 Old Six Mile Lane in the city of Jeffersontown. Colors are maroon and white. Teams are the Chargers. Board member: Taylor Everett. It is a Network 2 Academies of Louisville resides school with Fern Creek, Marion C. Moore, Seneca, and Southern. Official hours: 8:40 a.m.–3:20 p.m. Feeders listed on the 2025–26 profile include Carrithers, Echo Trail, and Ramsey.

After the Freshman Academy, two academies: Build and Design (CNC operator, engineering, welding maintenance technician); Business and Health Science (allied health, patient care technician, financial services, marketing, teaching and learning, Marine Corps JROTC). The Choices Guide also markets arts, dual credit, and AP. Bluegrass Industrial Park partnerships are part of the school's older career-academy story.

Older pages still call Jeffersontown a "Career Magnet Academy." In the current Choices system it is a resides Academies of Louisville school. Marine JROTC and the health/trades pathways sit inside that campus. They are not the same as applying to Manual or Male.

How families get in

Jeffersontown is not on the districtwide magnet list with Manual, Male, Butler, Central, Brown, or Western. It is a resides Academies of Louisville high school in Network 2. Use School Finder. If Jeffersontown is the campus tied to your address, you enroll — you do not enter the magnet lottery for a seat in the building.

• If this is your resides school: register first if the child is new to JCPS, then enroll at Jeffersontown.
• Choice Zone families still pick close-to-home or far-away. Confirm that map for your address.
• Academy pathways are chosen after ninth grade. The Freshman Academy is the on-ramp.
• Welding, CNC, and JROTC seats are not automatic. Ask which sections actually ran last year.
• If this is not your resides school: apply in the JCPS window as an in-network Academies request or a transfer — not as one of the eight magnet high schools. Jeffersontown is Network 2.
• A 2.0 GPA is often cited for Academies lottery eligibility. Confirm the current Choices Guide.
• Do not assume transportation. Resides busing follows district rules for this address; transfers often do not.

Who it tends to fit

Students

Figures below come from the JCPS Individual School Data Book for Jeffersontown High, 2025–26, unless noted. The diversity index is calculated from those headcounts — the chance two students picked at random are from different reported groups — not a JCPS badge.

Gender: About 661 boys and 581 girls from the race-gender roll. Title I: yes.

• Free lunch 807 · reduced 42 (about 68% free/reduced)
• Gifted and talented: 188
• ECE: 173
• 504 plans: 67
• Multilingual learners: 211
• KDE indicator rating in the data book: 2

Academics

Start with the bands Jeffersontown posts from the Kentucky School Report Card. They are the honest first number.

• School site / KDE badges: 22% proficient, 8% distinguished in reading (30% P+D); 19% proficient, 2% distinguished in math (21% P+D) — lower-middle JCPS high school bands.
• Choices Guide / school: dual credit and AP listed, plus welding, CNC, and allied health. Ask which academy sections ran.
• Enrollment sources: data book 1,242 (Oct. 1, 2025) against a Choices print figure of 1,216. Use the data book for headcounts.
• Listed optimal capacity is 1,523 against 1,242 on the roll, so this is not an overcrowding story on paper. Dual credit, welding, and health certificates are the academic story. Statewide proficiency is not.

Awards and recognition

• Chargers

  Maroon and white · KHSAA lists maroon, white, columbia

• Build & Design

  CNC and welding — skilled-trades academy

• Health + JROTC

  Allied health and Marine Corps in Business and Health Science

• 8:40 start

  Later high-school bell, same wave as Fern Creek

Location and daily life

9600 Old Six Mile Lane is in the city of Jeffersontown — east-southeast Louisville, near Bluegrass Industrial Park. Official hours are 8:40 a.m. to 3:20 p.m.

Resides transportation follows district rules for this address. Network and transfer placements often do not get a bus.

Compare before you commit

• Fern Creek HighNetwork 2 neighbor. Fire science, culinary, and Marine JROTC.
• Eastern HighNearby east-end resides school. Larger. More AP volume listed.
• Southern HighNetwork 2. Auto and collision are districtwide pathways.
• duPont ManualDistrictwide magnet. Application required. Different academic profile.
• Your other resides option(opens the official JCPS page in a new tab)In the Choice Zone, the far-away campus is the other automatic seat.

Questions to ask on a tour

1. 1.Is Jeffersontown our resides school in School Finder, or would we be applying?
2. 2.Which welding, CNC, and allied-health sections actually ran last year?
3. 3.How does Marine JROTC placement work for resides vs. network applicants?
4. 4.What dual-credit seats filled, not just what the brochure lists?
5. 5.What does the 8:40 arrival look like on Old Six Mile Lane?
6. 6.How are visitors screened after the 2021 lockdown?
7. 7.If we live outside the zone, is transportation offered?
8. 8.How full are Freshman Academy classes after Echo Trail opened?

What to do next

1. 1.Run your address in JCPS School Finder. That answer decides whether you apply.
2. 2.Read the Jeffersontown page in the current High School Choices Guide.
3. 3.Tour welding, CNC, and a health lab while class is in session.
4. 4.If Jeffersontown is not your resides school, apply in the on-time window as a Network 2 Academies request — not as a districtwide magnet.
5. 5.Confirm the current counselor list at the desk.
6. 6.Confirm transportation in Infinite Campus. Do not assume an Old Six Mile Lane bus from across the county.