East Louisville News

There were 2,726 white students enrolled in Henry County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.9% decrease from the 2,751 white 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, white students comprised 84% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Henry County, Henry County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 597 students, making up 91% 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
Eminence High School	77.1%	516
Eminence Elementary School	77.7%	457
Bluegrass Challenge Academy	70.2%	124
Henry County Early Childhood	83.9%	137
Campbellsburg Elementary School	90.2%	338
Eastern Elementary School	88.4%	189
Henry County High School	91%	656
Henry County Middle School	85.4%	478
New Castle Elementary School	83.8%	351