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There were 1,003 first grade students enrolled in Bullitt County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 9.4% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Mt. Washington Elementary School and Pleasant Grove Elementary School welcomed most of the first grade students in the county, registering 102 students.

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

Statewide, Bullitt County ranked ninth in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked ninth 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 1st Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Mt. Washington Elementary School	102	16.2%	628
Pleasant Grove Elementary School	102	16.2%	630
Freedom Elementary School	101	16.3%	620
Old Mill Elementary School	92	16.9%	545
Shepherdsville Elementary School	89	15.6%	571
Crossroads Elementary School	89	17.7%	504
Brooks Elementary School	84	16.5%	510
Roby Elementary School	78	15.7%	496
Cedar Grove Elementary School	72	16.2%	445
Lebanon Junction Elementary School	68	18%	378
Maryville Elementary School	53	13.9%	380
Overdale Elementary School	52	13.9%	373
Nichols Elementary School	21	19.3%	109