East Louisville News

There were 1,952 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Shelby County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 6.6% increase from the 1,831 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 26% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Shelby County, Martha Layne Collins High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 391 students, making up 30.9% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Painted Stone Elementary School	29%	473
Southside Elementary School	29.5%	464
Martha Layne Collins High School	30.9%	1,266
Marnel C. Moorman School	32.2%	823
Heritage Elementary School	6.4%	453
Shelby County West Middle School	33.4%	647
Shelby County High School	24.8%	1,052
Simpsonville Elementary School	16.9%	461
Shelby County East Middle School	16.7%	592
Clear Creek Elementary School	26.1%	459
Wright Elementary School	24.1%	489
Northside Early Childhood Center	32%	256
Ascension Academy	27.1%	70