East Louisville News

There were 210 kindergarten students enrolled in Henry County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.4% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

New Castle Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 72 students.

Within Henry County schools, the highest student population was found in 10th grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Henry County ranked 61st in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 61st the year before.

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	# of Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
New Castle Elementary School	72	20.5%	351
Eminence Elementary School	65	14.2%	457
Campbellsburg Elementary School	50	14.8%	338
Eastern Elementary School	23	12.2%	189