Elizabethtown Times

There were 51 American Indian or Alaskan Native students enrolled in Hardin County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 27.5% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that American Indian or Alaskan Native students made up less than 0.1% of the 18,560 students in Hardin County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the second least represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the two school districts in Hardin County, Elizabethtown Independent School District recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaskan Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 10 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Hardin County.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.

District	% of american indian or alaskan native students enrolment	Total enrollment
Hardin County School District	< 0.1	15,847
Elizabethtown Independent School District	< 0.1	2,713