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

Of the 4,313 students attending Montgomery County schools, 89% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 6%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Montgomery County schools, representing 88.4% of the student body.

Mount Sterling Elementary School had the most even distribution of races among county schools, which included 82.5% white students, 8.5% Hispanic or Latino students, 4.1% African American students, 3.8% multiracial students, 0.9% Asian students, and 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 0.4% 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
Montgomery County High School	White	89.7%	1,400
Mapleton Elementary School	White	89.1%	744
McNabb Middle School	White	90.5%	713
Mount Sterling Elementary School	White	82.5%	639
Camargo Elementary School	White	93.5%	599
The Sterling School	White	90.5%	116
Gateway Children's Services	White	81.4%	102