Editing Elizabethtown, Kentucky (section)

==Education==
[[File:Panther Baseball Park.JPG|thumb|right|275px|[[Water tower]] near Panther Baseball Park in Elizabethtown]]

===Elizabethtown Independent Schools===
[[Elizabethtown Independent Schools]] operates:
* [[Elizabethtown High School]]
* T.K. Stone Middle School
* Morningside Elementary School
* Helmwood Heights Elementary School
* Valley View Educational Center

===Hardin County Schools===
The [[Hardin County Schools]] (HCS) are another district that encompasses some of the city limits.

Here are the schools located within the city limits:

* Bluegrass Middle School
* [[Central Hardin High School]]<ref name="HS locations">{{cite web |url=http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/SPRS%20Maps/Hardin.pdf |title=State Primary Road System: Hardin County |publisher=[[Kentucky Transportation Cabinet]] |date=July 2011 |access-date=August 5, 2011 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714133357/http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/SPRS%20Maps/Hardin.pdf |url-status=live }} On this map, Elizabethtown is displayed with a pink background and Radcliff in green. For Central Hardin's location, follow [[U.S. 62]] west of downtown Elizabethtown. For John Hardin High's location, zoom in to the region where the two cities meet.</ref>
* G.C. Burkhead Elementary School
* Heartland Elementary School
* Lincoln Trail Elementary School
* New Highland Elementary School

Although New Highland Elementary, Bluegrass Middle School, and [[John Hardin High School]] have an Elizabethtown mailing address, and some Elizabethtown residents are zoned into those schools, they are actually within the city limits of neighboring [[Radcliff, Kentucky|Radcliff]].<ref name="HS locations"/> Similarly, the HCS headquarters is located in Radcliff but served by the Elizabethtown post office.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/SPRS%20Maps/Radcliff_Vine_Grove_city.pdf |title=State Primary Road Map: Radcliff/Vine Grove, Hardin County |publisher=Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |date=April 2018 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |archive-date=July 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705003923/https://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/SPRS%20Maps/Radcliff_Vine_Grove_city.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Conversely, Central Hardin High is within the city limits of Elizabethtown but has a mailing address of [[Cecilia, Kentucky|Cecilia]].{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

===Private schools===
* Saint James Catholic Regional School
* Gloria Dei Lutheran School

===Post-secondary education===
Elizabethtown is home to [[Elizabethtown Community and Technical College]], a member of the [[Kentucky Community and Technical College System]], as well as Empire Beauty School formerly the Hair Design School on Westport Road. Also, [[Western Kentucky University]] has a regional campus located on post at Fort Knox and in a building that is shared with ECTC in Elizabethtown.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

The Elizabethtown Japanese School (エリザベスタウン日本人補習校 ''Erizabesutaun Nihonjin Hoshūkō''), a [[Hoshuko|weekend Japanese program]], holds its classes at the [[Elizabethtown Community and Technical College]].<ref name=Nashvilleconsulatehoshukolist>"[http://www.nashville.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jp/ryojijoho/shijokyoiku_hoshuko.htm 補習授業校リスト]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150216013036/http://www.nashville.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jp/ryojijoho/shijokyoiku_hoshuko.htm Archive]). [[Consulate General of Japan in Nashville]]. Retrieved February 15, 2015. "（2）エリザ スタウン日本人補習校 (Elizabethtown Japanese School) 学校所在地 c/o Elizabethtown Community and Technical College 600 College Street Road, Elizabethtown, KY 42701"</ref><ref>[http://apps.elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/community/Japanese_School/japanese/index.htm Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401055023/http://apps.elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/community/Japanese_School/japanese/index.htm |date=April 1, 2015 }}. Elizabethtown Japanese School. Retrieved April 5, 2015. "エリザベスタウン日本人補習校 c/o ECTC 600 College Street Road Elizabethtown, Kentucky, U.S.A."</ref>

===Public library===
Elizabethtown has a [[public library|lending library]], a branch of the Hardin County Public Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111202017/https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 11, 2019 | title=Kentucky Public Library Directory | publisher=Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives | access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>