Elizabethtown Times

There were 254 first grade students enrolled in Breckinridge County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 21% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Irvington Elementary School welcomed most of the first grade students in the county, registering 77 students.

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

Statewide, Breckinridge County ranked 62nd in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 62nd 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 1st Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Irvington Elementary School	77	19.2%	401
Hardinsburg Elementary School	72	13.1%	548
Ben Johnson Elementary School	47	18.9%	249
Custer Elementary School	33	17.5%	189
Cloverport Independent School	25	8.1%	308