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There were 574 fourth grade students enrolled in Nelson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 14.8% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Bardstown Elementary School welcomed most of the fourth grade students in the county, registering 218 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 4th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Bardstown Elementary School	218	26%	837
Foster Heights Elementary School	134	19.1%	703
Coxs Creek Elementary School	82	16.9%	484
Bloomfield Elementary School	49	16.7%	294
Boston School	45	10.8%	417
The New Haven School	43	10.5%	409
Bardstown Alternative School	2	2.6%	77
The Academy at Horizons	1	0.9%	117