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Thomas Nelson High School, Bardstown, KY

CEP schoolThomas Nelson High School is a public high school in Bardstown, part of Nelson County Public Schools. It enrolled 629 students in 2024-25, with 19.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
629
Teachers (FTE)
32.0
Students per teacher
19.7
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 4.4 higher than the district figure of 15.3. The Kentucky average across schools is 15.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school19.7
District15.3
Kentucky15.6
United States15.3

School details

Address
150 Generals Blvd, Bardstown, KY 40004
Phone
(502)349-4650
District
Nelson County Public Schools
County
Nelson County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
210441002324
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
237
Reduced-price lunch
39
Free or reduced-price lunch
27643.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
214Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Nelson County Public Schools

High schools elsewhere in Bardstown

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.