East Louisville News

There were 23 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Shelby County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 53.3% increase from the 15 American Indian or Alaska Native 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Shelby County, Shelby County High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six students, making up 0.6% 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 American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Painted Stone Elementary School	0.2%	473
Martha Layne Collins High School	0.2%	1,266
Marnel C. Moorman School	0.2%	823
Shelby County West Middle School	0.3%	647
Shelby County High School	0.6%	1,052
Simpsonville Elementary School	0.2%	461
Shelby County East Middle School	0.3%	592
Clear Creek Elementary School	0.2%	459
Wright Elementary School	0.8%	489
Northside Early Childhood Center	0.4%	256