How many African American students were enrolled in Madison County schools in 2022-23 school year?

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

By SE Bluegrass News

Jul 12, 2024

There were 644 African American students enrolled in Madison County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 12% increase from the 575 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Madison County welcomed a total of 14,306 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 4.5% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 22 schools in Madison County, Madison Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 137 students, making up 5.7% 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 Madison County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Madison County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Berea Community Elementary School	3.7%	561
Berea Community Middle School	3.9%	257
Berea Community High School	5.7%	384
Shannon Johnson Elementary School	1.6%	513
Boonesborough Elementary School	3.5%	457
Clark Moores Middle School	6.4%	598
Daniel Boone Elementary School	8.6%	555
Glenn R. Marshall Elementary School	7.7%	480
Madison Middle School	6.4%	735
B. Michael Caudill Middle School	5.7%	508
Kingston Elementary School	1.8%	679
Kirksville Elementary School	8.4%	644
Kit Carson Elementary School	5.7%	507
Madison Central High School	5.7%	2,384
Bellevue Transitional School	14.1%	64
Silver Creek Elementary School	1.4%	562
Madison Kindergarten Academy	8.3%	469
Waco Elementary School	1.7%	470
White Hall Elementary School	6.1%	423
Foley Middle School	1.5%	480
Farristown Middle School	1.6%	499
Madison Southern High School	1.5%	1,287
Madison County Day Treatment	4.3%	46
Model Elementary School	2.1%	329
Model High School	0.7%	415