Elizabethtown Times

There were 36 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Hardin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 18.2% decrease from the 44 American Indian or Alaska Native 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 28 schools in Hardin County, College View Campus recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four students, making up 0.5% 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 American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Elizabethtown High School	0.1%	885
Morningside Elementary School	0.2%	507
Valley View Education Center	1.2%	80
East Hardin Middle School	0.1%	833
Lakewood Elementary School	0.2%	504
Bluegrass Middle School	0.1%	667
Heartland Elementary School	0.3%	637
G. C. Burkhead Elementary School	0.2%	939
North Park Elementary School	0.1%	725
College View Campus	0.5%	818
Cecilia Valley Elementary School	0.4%	478
New Highland Elementary School	0.5%	587
North Hardin High School	0.2%	1,839
James T. Alton Middle School	0.3%	726
Radcliff Elementary School	0.2%	495
North Middle School	0.5%	658
West Hardin Middle School	0.5%	566
Central Hardin High School	0.1%	2,050
Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systems	0.2%	646