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There were 413 African American students enrolled in Nelson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.4% decrease from the 423 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Nelson County welcomed a total of 7,817 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 5.3% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Nelson County, Bardstown High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 98 students, making up 14.1% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bardstown Alternative School	15.6%	77
Bardstown Early Childhood Center	11.4%	299
Bardstown Elementary School	11.1%	837
Bardstown Primary School	11.1%	405
Bardstown High School	14.1%	697
Bardstown Middle School	11.3%	603
Bloomfield Middle School	0.8%	375
The New Haven School	0.5%	409
Bloomfield Elementary School	0.3%	294
The Academy at Horizons	1.7%	117
Boston School	0.2%	417
Coxs Creek Elementary School	1.2%	484
Foster Heights Elementary School	1.3%	703
Nelson County Early Learning Center	3.5%	199
Old Kentucky Home Middle School	0.8%	384
Nelson County High School	2.3%	813
Thomas Nelson High School	1.4%	704