Quantcast

SE Bluegrass News

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Estill County's schools' student body predominantly white in 2022-23 school year

Webp commissioner of education jason glass 2023

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

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

Of the 2,411 students attending Estill County schools, 97.3% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 1.3%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Estill County schools, representing 96.6% of the student body.

Estill County High School and West Irvine Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, 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 7.8% 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.

Students' Most Prevalent Ethnicity Percentage in Estill County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
SchoolMost PrevalentPercent of Total Student BodyTotal Enrollment
Estill County High SchoolWhite97.2%747
West Irvine Elementary SchoolWhite97.4%578
Estill County Middle SchoolWhite98%564
Estill Springs Elementary SchoolWhite96.7%485
Estill County Success AcademyWhite97.3%37

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS