How many white students were enrolled in Hardin County schools in 2022-23 school year?

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

By Elizabethtown Times

Aug 9, 2024

There were 13,305 white students enrolled in Hardin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.6% increase from the 13,226 white 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, white students comprised 65.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 28 schools in Hardin County, Central Hardin High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,727 students, making up 84.2% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Elizabethtown High School	64.5%	885
Helmwood Heights Elementary School	64.9%	450
Morningside Elementary School	63.3%	507
Panther Academy	67.3%	248
Talton K. Stone Middle School	62.4%	583
Valley View Education Center	40%	80
East Hardin Middle School	82%	833
Woodland Elementary School	41%	612
John Hardin High School	55.9%	861
Lakewood Elementary School	90.1%	504
Bluegrass Middle School	58%	667
Creekside Elementary School	86.1%	489
Heartland Elementary School	68.8%	637
G. C. Burkhead Elementary School	68.7%	939
North Park Elementary School	50.1%	725
College View Campus	59.5%	818
Cecilia Valley Elementary School	88.3%	478
New Highland Elementary School	57.6%	587
Lincoln Trail Elementary School	87%	625
North Hardin High School	51.8%	1,839
James T. Alton Middle School	59.5%	726
Radcliff Elementary School	45.3%	495
North Middle School	43%	658
Rineyville Elementary School	69.9%	581
Vine Grove Elementary School	61.1%	571
West Hardin Middle School	81.8%	566
Hardin County Day Treatment Center	60.7%	28
Central Hardin High School	84.2%	2,050
Meadow View Elementary School	39.4%	573
Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systems	86.1%	646
Spectrum Care Academy	80%	10