NC Kentucky News

There were 502 kindergarten students enrolled in Nelson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.2% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Bardstown Primary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 200 students.

Within Nelson County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in fifth grade.

Statewide, Nelson County ranked 23rd in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 23rd the year before.

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	# of Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Bardstown Primary School	200	49.4%	405
Foster Heights Elementary School	114	16.2%	703
Coxs Creek Elementary School	70	14.5%	484
The New Haven School	42	10.3%	409
Boston School	42	10.1%	417
Bloomfield Elementary School	33	11.2%	294
The Academy at Horizons	1	0.9%	117