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There were 87 African American students enrolled in Montgomery County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.2% increase from the 86 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Montgomery County welcomed a total of 5,026 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1.7% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Montgomery County, Montgomery County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 33 students, making up 2.4% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Camargo Elementary School	0.6%	670
Gateway Children's Services	7.9%	63
Northview Elementary School	1.6%	683
Mapleton Elementary School	1%	575
Montgomery County High School	2.4%	1,382
Mount Sterling Elementary School	2.4%	461
McNabb Middle School	1.4%	1,107
The Sterling School	2.4%	85