Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 82.7% of Madison County's student body in 2022-23 school year

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

By SE Bluegrass News

Aug 8, 2024

There were 11,831 white students enrolled in Madison County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.3% increase from the 11,678 white 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, white students comprised 82.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 22 schools in Madison County, Madison Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,893 students, making up 79.4% 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.

Ethnicities in Madison County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Madison County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Berea Community Elementary School	83.8%	561
Berea Community Middle School	81.3%	257
Berea Community High School	82%	384
Shannon Johnson Elementary School	86.9%	513
Boonesborough Elementary School	89.1%	457
Clark Moores Middle School	78.3%	598
Daniel Boone Elementary School	71.2%	555
Glenn R. Marshall Elementary School	74.4%	480
Madison Middle School	77.7%	735
B. Michael Caudill Middle School	79.3%	508
Kingston Elementary School	90.7%	679
Kirksville Elementary School	74.5%	644
Kit Carson Elementary School	80.9%	507
Madison Central High School	79.4%	2,384
Bellevue Transitional School	82.8%	64
Silver Creek Elementary School	88.8%	562
Madison Kindergarten Academy	76.3%	469
Waco Elementary School	86.8%	470
White Hall Elementary School	79%	423
Foley Middle School	89.4%	480
Farristown Middle School	90.6%	499
Madison Southern High School	91.3%	1,287
Madison County Day Treatment	78.3%	46
Model Elementary School	87.5%	329
Model High School	86.5%	415