Hardin County Education: 278 Asian students were enrolled in 2022-23 school year

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

By Elizabethtown Times

Jul 18, 2024

There were 278 Asian students enrolled in Hardin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.5% decrease from the 288 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 1.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 28 schools in Hardin County, North Hardin High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 31 students, making up 1.7% 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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Elizabethtown High School	3.1%	885
Helmwood Heights Elementary School	1.3%	450
Morningside Elementary School	1.8%	507
Panther Academy	0.8%	248
Talton K. Stone Middle School	2.6%	583
East Hardin Middle School	1.2%	833
Woodland Elementary School	0.7%	612
John Hardin High School	2%	861
Lakewood Elementary School	0.8%	504
Bluegrass Middle School	2.5%	667
Creekside Elementary School	0.4%	489
Heartland Elementary School	3.1%	637
G. C. Burkhead Elementary School	3.2%	939
North Park Elementary School	0.7%	725
College View Campus	0.4%	818
Cecilia Valley Elementary School	0.6%	478
New Highland Elementary School	1.7%	587
Lincoln Trail Elementary School	0.2%	625
North Hardin High School	1.7%	1,839
James T. Alton Middle School	1.5%	726
Radcliff Elementary School	1%	495
North Middle School	0.6%	658
Rineyville Elementary School	0.5%	581
Vine Grove Elementary School	1.1%	571
West Hardin Middle School	0.5%	566
Central Hardin High School	1.1%	2,050
Meadow View Elementary School	1.4%	573