Elizabethtown Times

Hardin County School District had the highest enrollment among Hardin County districts, welcoming 16,474 students during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.6% of them were boys, and 49.4% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 66.4% of the total enrollment.

Hardin County School District roughly covers schools within Hardin County with its main office in Elizabethtown.

Among the two districts in Hardin County, Elizabethtown Independent School District ranked second in enrollment numbers with 2,685 students.

In the previous school year, Hardin County School District had the highest number of students among Hardin County districts.

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.

District	City (main office)	Total Enrollment
Hardin County School District	Elizabethtown	16,474
Elizabethtown Independent School District	Elizabethtown	2,685