NW Kentucky News

The only school district in Henderson County had rising enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 7,398 students in Henderson County School District, 0.6% higher than the year before.

Enrollment in Henderson County was steady with the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 51.2% of them were boys, and 48.8% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 72% of Henderson County School District's total enrollment.

Henderson County School District has a main office in Henderson and is the only school district within Henderson County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Henderson County High School	2,094	2,131	-1.7%
Henderson County North Middle School	788	815	-3.3%
Henderson County South Middle School	781	820	-4.8%
Spottsville Elementary School	581	578	0.5%
The Central Academy	517	388	33.2%
Bend Gate Elementary School	469	440	6.6%
South Heights Elementary School	468	474	-1.3%
Thelma B. Johnson Early Learning Center	459	427	7.5%
Jefferson Elementary School	411	379	8.4%
East Heights Elementary School	382	387	-1.3%
A. B. Chandler Elementary School	302	290	4.1%
Niagara Elementary School	288	293	-1.7%
Cairo Elementary School	278	275	1.1%