Elizabethtown Times

There were 58 African American students enrolled in Larue County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.3% decrease from the 60 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Larue County welcomed a total of 2,583 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 2.2% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Larue County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 17 students.

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
Preschool on College Street	0.8%	118
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School	0.8%	487
Hodgenville Elementary School	2.2%	580
Larue County High School	2.2%	783
Larue County Middle School	3%	566
The Life Connection	12.2%	49