East Louisville News

There were 83 African American students enrolled in Henry County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 6.7% decrease from the 89 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Henry County welcomed a total of 3,246 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 2.6% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Henry County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 19 students.

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
Eminence High School	3.7%	516
Eminence Elementary School	3.7%	457
Bluegrass Challenge Academy	15.3%	124
Henry County Early Childhood	2.2%	137
Eastern Elementary School	1.1%	189
Henry County High School	1.2%	656
Henry County Middle School	1%	478
New Castle Elementary School	2.8%	351