East Louisville News

There were 4,485 white students enrolled in Shelby County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.7% decrease from the 4,561 white 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, white students comprised 59.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Shelby County, Martha Layne Collins High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 686 students, making up 54.2% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Painted Stone Elementary School	51.8%	473
Southside Elementary School	53.7%	464
Martha Layne Collins High School	54.2%	1,266
Marnel C. Moorman School	52.6%	823
Heritage Elementary School	86.8%	453
Shelby County West Middle School	51.8%	647
Shelby County High School	61.7%	1,052
Simpsonville Elementary School	72.5%	461
Shelby County East Middle School	72%	592
Clear Creek Elementary School	53.8%	459
Wright Elementary School	66.1%	489
Northside Early Childhood Center	52%	256
Ascension Academy	45.7%	70