East Louisville News

There were 238 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Henry County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.8% decrease from the 240 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 7.3% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Henry County, Eminence High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 55 students, making up 10.7% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Eminence High School	10.7%	516
Eminence Elementary School	9.6%	457
Bluegrass Challenge Academy	6.5%	124
Henry County Early Childhood	10.2%	137
Campbellsburg Elementary School	4.1%	338
Eastern Elementary School	6.3%	189
Henry County High School	4.7%	656
Henry County Middle School	7.5%	478
New Castle Elementary School	6.8%	351