Elizabethtown Times

There were 1,427 12th grade students enrolled in Hardin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.8% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Central Hardin High School welcomed most of the 12th grade students in the county, registering 478 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 12th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Central Hardin High School	478	23.3%	2,050
North Hardin High School	352	19.1%	1,839
College View Campus	200	24.4%	818
Elizabethtown High School	192	21.7%	885
John Hardin High School	155	18%	861
Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systems	37	5.7%	646
Valley View Education Center	13	16.2%	80