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There were 136 multiracial students enrolled in Montgomery County schools in 2022-23 school year

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

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

There were 136 multiracial students enrolled in Montgomery County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.5% increase from the 134 multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 2.7% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Montgomery County, Montgomery County High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 36 students, making up 2.6% 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.

Ethnicities in Montgomery County in 2022-23 School Year
White [87.9%]Hispanic or Latino [6.9%]Ethnicities with <5% [5.1%]

Enrollment in Montgomery County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Camargo Elementary School1.5%670
Gateway Children's Services11.1%63
Northview Elementary School3.5%683
Mapleton Elementary School1%575
Montgomery County High School2.6%1,382
Mount Sterling Elementary School5.4%461
McNabb Middle School2.4%1,107
The Sterling School1.2%85

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