West Pennyroyal News

There were 52 African American students enrolled in Hart County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 15.6% increase from the 45 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hart County welcomed a total of 2,530 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 2.1% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Hart County, Munfordville Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 22 students, making up 4% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bonnieville Elementary School	0.3%	354
Cub Run Elementary School	0.9%	221
Hart County High School	2.3%	709
Legrande Elementary School	2.5%	318
Memorial Elementary School	0.8%	384
Munfordville Elementary School	4%	544