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Simmons College of Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky · Private · Four-year · Founded 1879

simmonscollegeky.edu · official site

Founding

Simmons College of Kentucky began in 1879, when the state's Black Baptist convention purchased four acres in Louisville to establish the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute. The college lost its original campus in 1930 and reacquired it in 2007.

Source: History, Simmons College of Kentucky, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1018 South 7th Street, Louisville, KY 40203-3322
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
461759
OPE id
04178000
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 1018 S 7TH ST, LOUISVILLE, KY, 40203. See it on the Ledger map.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 461759. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History, Simmons College of Kentucky. https://simmonscollegeky.edu/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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