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

Of the 6,105 students attending Clark County schools, 82.4% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 6.9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Clark County schools, representing 79.8% of the student body.

Clark County Preschool had the most even distribution of races among county schools, which included 75.2% white students, 10.7% Hispanic or Latino students, 8% African American students, 5.3% multiracial students, and 0.8% Asian students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 3.8% 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
George Rogers Clark High School	White	84%	1,694
Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Intermediate School	White	83.1%	947
Robert D. Campbell Jr. High School	White	84.5%	892
Strode Station Elementary School	White	80.1%	574
William G. Conkwright Elementary School	White	83.6%	562
Willis H. Justice Elementary School	White	79.2%	499
Shearer Elementary School	White	82.5%	474
Clark County Preschool	White	75.2%	375
Phoenix Academy	White	79.5%	88