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There were 6,411 white students enrolled in Nelson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.6% increase from the 6,373 white 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, white students comprised 82% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Nelson County, Nelson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 743 students, making up 91.4% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bardstown Alternative School	64.9%	77
Bardstown Early Childhood Center	68.2%	299
Bardstown Elementary School	65%	837
Bardstown Primary School	69.4%	405
Bardstown High School	64.6%	697
Bardstown Middle School	68.7%	603
Bloomfield Middle School	93.1%	375
The New Haven School	94.4%	409
Bloomfield Elementary School	94.2%	294
The Academy at Horizons	88.9%	117
Boston School	93.5%	417
Coxs Creek Elementary School	89%	484
Foster Heights Elementary School	88.3%	703
Nelson County Early Learning Center	85.9%	199
Old Kentucky Home Middle School	87.8%	384
Nelson County High School	91.4%	813
Thomas Nelson High School	93.6%	704