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Nelson County Education: 512 multiracial students were enrolled in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 512 multiracial students enrolled in Nelson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.4% increase from the 495 multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 6.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Nelson County, Bardstown Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 124 students, making up 14.8% 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.

Ethnicities in Nelson County in 2022-23 School Year
White [82%]Multiracial [6.5%]African American [5.3%]Hispanic or Latino [5.2%]Ethnicities with <5% [0.8%]

Enrollment in Nelson County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Bardstown Alternative School13%77
Bardstown Early Childhood Center14.7%299
Bardstown Elementary School14.8%837
Bardstown Primary School12.6%405
Bardstown High School10.2%697
Bardstown Middle School10.3%603
Bloomfield Middle School2.1%375
The New Haven School2.4%409
Bloomfield Elementary School2%294
The Academy at Horizons4.3%117
Boston School3.4%417
Coxs Creek Elementary School4.5%484
Foster Heights Elementary School4.8%703
Nelson County Early Learning Center3.5%199
Old Kentucky Home Middle School5.2%384
Nelson County High School2.2%813
Thomas Nelson High School0.9%704

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