East Louisville News

There were 480 African American students enrolled in Shelby County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7% decrease from the 516 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Shelby County welcomed a total of 7,505 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 6.4% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Shelby County, Martha Layne Collins High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 97 students, making up 7.7% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Painted Stone Elementary School	8.2%	473
Southside Elementary School	6.9%	464
Martha Layne Collins High School	7.7%	1,266
Marnel C. Moorman School	6.8%	823
Heritage Elementary School	1.1%	453
Shelby County West Middle School	7.6%	647
Shelby County High School	5.7%	1,052
Simpsonville Elementary School	4.1%	461
Shelby County East Middle School	5.4%	592
Clear Creek Elementary School	8.9%	459
Wright Elementary School	4.3%	489
Northside Early Childhood Center	7.8%	256
Ascension Academy	12.9%	70