Atherton High School is a public school in the Highlands district of Louisville, Kentucky, United States, and is part of the Jefferson County Public School district.

Atherton High School for Girls at 1418 Morton Avenue.

It is named after John McDougal Atherton,[5] a local businessman and politician who was instrumental in changing Louisville's school system administration from trustees to a board of education.

[5] Atherton moved to its current site in 1962 on the old Ray and Charles Clagett estate and its old premises is now the Jefferson County Traditional Middle School.

The IB Program is the only one in the city at a public school, and also the only one open to boys (the city's other IB program is at the all-girls' Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic school).