Elizabethtown Times

There were 1,885 ninth grade students enrolled in Hardin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.9% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Central Hardin High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 572 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 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Central Hardin High School	572	27.9%	2,050
North Hardin High School	543	29.5%	1,839
Elizabethtown High School	241	27.2%	885
John Hardin High School	240	27.9%	861
Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systems	137	21.2%	646
College View Campus	119	14.5%	818
Valley View Education Center	23	28.8%	80
Hardin County Day Treatment Center	9	32.1%	28
Spectrum Care Academy	1	10%	10