Bullitt County is a bedroom community located to the south of Louisville, Kentucky, along the I-65 north/south corridor. Its total population is over 60,000, divided nearly equally between urban and rural dwellers. Only about 67 of these residents are employed in farming, fishing, or forestry (.2 percent). The population is predominantly white, of European descent, with people of English, Irish and German backgrounds the most common, making up almost half the population (34.4 percent of the 49,382 who reported ancestry). The non-white population is very small, totaling 1,184 individuals (1.8 percent).
The population is relatively transient. Almost half change houses in a five year period (41.1 percent), and nearly a quarter (23.4 percent) were living in another county or state five years ago.
The community is not one in which education beyond high school is considered the norm. 2,402 of the 39,307 residents over 25 years of age hold a bachelors degree (6.1percent), 1,217 (3.1 percent) have attained a graduate or professional degree, and 2,416 (6.1 percent) have an associate degree. 7,692 (19.6 percent) attended a college but did not take a degree. The high school diploma has been attained by 29,889 (76 percent).
The county's population includes a wide scale of incomes; the median household income is 49,481dollars annually. 7.9 percent of all persons live below the poverty level, 11.7 percent of school-aged children. Most of the more affluent population is centered in Mount Washington or in the Brooks area, which are served by North Bullitt High School and Bullitt East High School, so these figures for Bullitt Central High School are, in the former case lower, and in the latter, higher.
The picture of the typical Bullitt Central student as a person of Caucasian ancestry whose parents are occupied in clerical, service, craft or manufacturing positions, and who expects or is expected to enter the workforce upon graduation is, in the main, an accurate one. The high school diploma is generally a terminal achievement, and there is not a community expectation for higher education.
The primary employers in the county are Publishers' Printing and the Bullitt County Board of Education. Publishers has an extensive training system of its own that is geared to the high school graduate, and foreknowledge of technology can elevate the initial entry position.
Bullitt Central is located in Shepherdsville and serves nearly the entire county, as opposed to North Bullitt and Bullitt East High Schools which serve much smaller portions of the district. BC is by far the largest of the three schools with a student population that has remained near 1250 students for the last decade. The campus includes four distinct schools; Bullitt Central High School, an alternative school, Riverview High School, a county-wide vocational school, and a day treatment program for court-ordered students. Bullitt Central provides no services for students of Riverview or those in day treatment, but does serve BC students who take classes at the vocational school, and some collaboration between the two institutions does exist.
Note: Statistics used in the above statement are taken from the 2000 federal census report. For a summary of the 2000 census for Bullitt County, compiled by the University of Louisville, click on the following link.
Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000