Overview

duPont Manual High School is a selective public magnet high school in Louisville, part of Jefferson County Public Schools -- a district of 172 schools total per NCES district data, the largest school district in Kentucky.

Academics

No independently verified Kentucky state assessment data (via the Kentucky School Report Card) was located specifically for this school for this profile; check the Kentucky Department of Education's site directly for current results. One secondary source's district-wide "SchoolGrade" estimate for Louisville-area schools generally put proficiency well below the state average, but as a selective magnet school, Manual's own outcomes likely differ substantially from that districtwide estimate -- this figure isn't specific to Manual and shouldn't be read as describing this school.

Neighborhood

The school is located near Old Louisville, south of downtown, in Jefferson County -- a different specific area from the "Downtown" neighborhood that several crime-index sources single out as Louisville's highest-crime area.

Crime & safety

Citywide Louisville crime data shows the same aggregate-versus-neighborhood pattern seen repeatedly in this directory: an elevated citywide crime rate (violent crime roughly 2-3x the Kentucky state average per multiple sources, with Louisville specifically cited as having Kentucky's highest violent-crime rate among cities) alongside a reported 75.5% of individual Louisville neighborhoods grading A for safety, with high-crime risk concentrated in a small number of areas -- Downtown, Russell, Smoketown, California, Phoenix Hill, and Park DuValle are specifically named across sources. The school's own neighborhood (near Old Louisville) isn't the same as any of those named higher-crime areas, but we didn't find a dedicated safety figure specific to it.

We found specific named data for Louisville's highest- and lowest-crime neighborhoods, but nothing specific to Old Louisville itself. Rather than assume it inherits either the citywide average or the "mostly safe" pattern seen elsewhere, we're leaving this as an open gap.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. With no school-specific academic verification and no neighborhood-specific safety data, we're not showing a rating for this profile. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- duPont Manual High, 2024-25 school year; Jefferson County district detail.
  2. CrimeGrade.org, Louisville violent-crime and overall-crime analyses (including SchoolGrade estimate), 2025.
  3. Guardian Protection blog, Louisville crime statistics, citing NeighborhoodScout data, 2026.
  4. AreaVibes, Louisville crime data, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.
  5. NeighborhoodScout, Louisville crime data, 2026.
  6. SafeHome.org, "The Safest and Most Dangerous Cities in Kentucky," citing 2023 FBI data.
  7. DoorProfit.com, Louisville crime map and Downtown-neighborhood-specific statistics, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.