Elizabethtown Times

There were 58 African American students enrolled in Breckinridge County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 18.3% decrease from the 71 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Breckinridge County welcomed a total of 3,253 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1.8% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Breckinridge County, Breckinridge County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 22 students, making up 2.3% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Breckinridge County High School	2.3%	973
Hardinsburg Elementary School	2%	548
Ben Johnson Elementary School	0.8%	249
Custer Elementary School	0.5%	189
Irvington Elementary School	2.7%	401
Breckinridge County Middle School	1.5%	585
Cloverport Independent School	0.6%	308