Hardin County Day Treatment Center

Hardin County Day Treatment Center, a micro-enrollment senior high in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, part of Hardin County, works with 8 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Hardin County Day Treatment Center sits 99% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 26 schools in Hardin County (14,583 students total), Hardin County Day Treatment Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Hardin County Day Treatment Center records that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% White, 25% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hardin County Day Treatment Center lists 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 2.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hardin County indicate median household income runs about $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), Hardin County Day Treatment Center is one campus in the mix.

Helmwood Heights Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hardin County Day Treatment Center.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 53%: 17 students in 2018 compared to 8 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 65% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 4.3:1 in 2018 to 2.7:1 in 2025.

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