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The majority of students in Madison County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 13,569 students attending Madison County schools, 84.4% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 5.2%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Madison County schools, representing 83.6% of the student body.

Berea Community Middle School and Berea Community High School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 6.8% compared to the previous year.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.

School	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Madison Central High School	White	80.3%	2,124
Madison Southern High School	White	92.3%	1,287
Shannon Johnson Elementary School	White	87.5%	695
B. Michael Caudill Middle School	White	83.3%	693
Kirksville Elementary School	White	76.1%	681
Kingston Elementary School	White	93.2%	657
Kit Carson Elementary School	White	80.6%	650
White Hall Elementary School	White	87.2%	633
Berea Community Elementary School	White	83.7%	627
Glenn R. Marshall Elementary School	White	81.9%	590
Silver Creek Elementary School	White	92.1%	584
Waco Elementary School	White	92.4%	525
Foley Middle School	White	89.1%	515
Farristown Middle School	White	93.4%	515
Madison Kindergarten Academy	White	79.7%	414
Berea Community High School	White	113.8%	349
Berea Community Middle School	White	132.1%	299
Madison County Day Treatment	White	77.3%	44