Enrollment Analysis: African American students comprised 12.6% of Hardin County's student body in 2022-23 school year

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

By Elizabethtown Times

Jul 12, 2024

There were 2,556 African American students enrolled in Hardin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.5% decrease from the 2,594 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hardin County welcomed a total of 20,271 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 12.6% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 28 schools in Hardin County, North Hardin High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 401 students, making up 21.8% 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.

Ethnicities in Hardin County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Hardin County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Elizabethtown High School	11.5%	885
Helmwood Heights Elementary School	12%	450
Morningside Elementary School	12%	507
Panther Academy	10.9%	248
Talton K. Stone Middle School	12.2%	583
Valley View Education Center	30%	80
East Hardin Middle School	3.4%	833
Woodland Elementary School	26.1%	612
John Hardin High School	18.6%	861
Lakewood Elementary School	2.4%	504
Bluegrass Middle School	15.4%	667
Creekside Elementary School	1.6%	489
Heartland Elementary School	11.6%	637
G. C. Burkhead Elementary School	7.3%	939
North Park Elementary School	21.2%	725
College View Campus	19.2%	818
Cecilia Valley Elementary School	0.8%	478
New Highland Elementary School	15.2%	587
Lincoln Trail Elementary School	1%	625
North Hardin High School	21.8%	1,839
James T. Alton Middle School	15.7%	726
Radcliff Elementary School	23.2%	495
North Middle School	25.8%	658
Rineyville Elementary School	5.5%	581
Vine Grove Elementary School	11.4%	571
West Hardin Middle School	4.8%	566
Hardin County Day Treatment Center	25%	28
Central Hardin High School	3.3%	2,050
Meadow View Elementary School	26.5%	573
Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systems	6.3%	646
Spectrum Care Academy	20%	10