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There were 62 Asian students enrolled in Nelson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 15.1% decrease from the 73 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 0.8% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Nelson County, Bardstown High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 18 students, making up 2.6% 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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bardstown Early Childhood Center	1%	299
Bardstown Elementary School	1.1%	837
Bardstown Primary School	0.2%	405
Bardstown High School	2.6%	697
Bardstown Middle School	1.7%	603
Bloomfield Middle School	0.3%	375
Coxs Creek Elementary School	0.2%	484
Foster Heights Elementary School	0.6%	703
Old Kentucky Home Middle School	1%	384
Nelson County High School	0.9%	813
Thomas Nelson High School	0.6%	704