Elizabethtown Times

The majority of students in Hardin County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 19,475 students attending Hardin County schools, 66.6% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 14.9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Hardin County schools, representing 65.9% of the student body.

Helmwood Heights Elementary School and Panther Academy had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county dropped to 3% compared to the previous year.

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.

School	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Central Hardin High School	White	86.3%	2,013
North Hardin High School	White	52.4%	1,763
John Hardin High School	White	54.8%	950
East Hardin Middle School	White	87.9%	876
Elizabethtown High School	White	69.4%	810
North Middle School	White	41.1%	754
James T. Alton Middle School	White	62.5%	734
Woodland Elementary School	White	41.1%	684
Heartland Elementary School	White	65.2%	669
Rineyville Elementary School	White	79.3%	634
West Hardin Middle School	White	83.3%	634
Talton K. Stone Middle School	White	64.3%	628
Meadow View Elementary School	White	39.7%	622
Radcliff Elementary School	White	45.3%	607
Lakewood Elementary School	White	90.1%	564
Vine Grove Elementary School	White	66.5%	561
Lincoln Trail Elementary School	White	88.1%	531
New Highland Elementary School	White	51.5%	530
Morningside Elementary School	White	114.4%	500
Creekside Elementary School	White	88.3%	471
Helmwood Heights Elementary School	White	80.2%	459
North Park Elementary School	White	51.2%	408
Cecilia Valley Elementary School	White	88.7%	311
Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systems	White	85.5%	290
Panther Academy	White	140.1%	269
Valley View Education Center	White	54.7%	64
Glen Dale Center	White	92.1%	38
Hardin County Day Treatment Center	White	54.3%	35
Spectrum Care Academy	White	84.4%	32