Elizabethtown Times

There were 1,314 kindergarten students enrolled in Hardin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4.4% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

North Park Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 410 students.

Within Hardin County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Hardin County ranked sixth in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked sixth the year before.

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	# of Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
North Park Elementary School	410	56.6%	725
Panther Academy	169	68.1%	248
G. C. Burkhead Elementary School	145	15.4%	939
Heartland Elementary School	97	15.2%	637
New Highland Elementary School	88	15%	587
Lincoln Trail Elementary School	88	14.1%	625
Rineyville Elementary School	80	13.8%	581
Creekside Elementary School	79	16.2%	489
Cecilia Valley Elementary School	78	16.3%	478
Lakewood Elementary School	76	15.1%	504
College View Campus	2	0.2%	818
Meadow View Elementary School	2	0.3%	573