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There were 16 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Madison County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 14.3% increase from the 14 American Indian or Alaska Native 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 22 schools in Madison County, Madison Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four students, making up 0.2% 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 American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Berea Community Middle School	0.4%	257
Clark Moores Middle School	0.2%	598
Glenn R. Marshall Elementary School	0.2%	480
Madison Middle School	0.3%	735
Kingston Elementary School	0.1%	679
Kit Carson Elementary School	0.2%	507
Madison Central High School	0.2%	2,384
Silver Creek Elementary School	0.4%	562
Waco Elementary School	0.2%	470
Foley Middle School	0.2%	480
Model High School	0.2%	415