Elizabethtown Times

There were 169 fifth grade students enrolled in Larue County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Hodgenville Elementary School welcomed most of the fifth grade students in the county, registering 92 students.

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

Statewide, Larue County ranked 72nd in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 72nd 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 5th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Hodgenville Elementary School	92	15.9%	580
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School	75	15.4%	487
The Life Connection	2	4.1%	49