Schools in Zip Code 40299

ZIP code 40299 has seven schools—four elementary, two middle and one high school—in Jefferson County. The 2025–2026 results show a wide spread: school averages range from 22% to 58%, compared with matched state averages of about 39% to 44%, depending on grade span. Most schools average below their state benchmarks, but three elementary schools are above or closer to them. The central takeaway is that results vary sharply by school, with the strongest performance concentrated in two elementary schools rather than shared across the ZIP code.

Farmer Elementary stands out most: it averaged 58% across its reported tests, 14 points above its matched state average of 44%; SchoolDigger ranks it at the 80th percentile with 4 stars. Tully Elementary averaged 50%, 6 points above the state, and earns a SchoolDigger ranking at the 67th percentile with 3 stars. At the other end, Cochrane Elementary averaged 22%, 22 points below the state, and ranks at the 6th percentile with 0 stars. Jeffersontown Elementary averaged 33%, while both middle schools and Jeffersontown High also fell below matched state averages.

Results improved overall but not consistently: across tests with results in both years, the average rose about 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the average gap from the state narrowed from about 9 points to 7. Jeffersontown Elementary made the biggest gain, up 12 points, while Tully Elementary declined 3 points but remained above the state average. As context, all schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for school year 2024–2025: 41% at Tully and 45% at Farmer, compared with 61% at Cochrane and 63% at Jeffersontown Elementary; these figures do not explain test results. Ratios also do not tell the whole story: Cochrane’s is 13.0 students per teacher versus Farmer’s 17.2, despite their opposite academic results. At the high school, graduation was 92% versus 94% statewide, while chronic absenteeism was 53% versus 24%.