Bluegrass Middle School

Bluegrass Middle School operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, part of Hardin County. Current enrollment sits at 583 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Hardin County runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 14,583 students. Bluegrass Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bluegrass Middle School shows that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Black, 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bluegrass Middle School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bluegrass Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hardin County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,647, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Hardin County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,037 students), Bluegrass Middle School is one campus in the mix.

New Highland Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bluegrass Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 550 students in 2018 compared to 583 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 19% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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