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There were 377 African American students enrolled in Clark County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 12.5% increase from the 335 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Clark County welcomed a total of 5,994 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 6.3% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Clark County, George Rogers Clark High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 112 students, making up 6.4% 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
Willis H. Justice Elementary School	6.2%	467
Strode Station Elementary School	6.1%	543
Shearer Elementary School	4.5%	442
William G. Conkwright Elementary School	7.6%	550
Phoenix Academy	10.8%	111
Clark County Preschool	6.3%	495
Robert D. Campbell Jr. High School	6.1%	871
Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Intermediate School	5.8%	774
George Rogers Clark High School	6.4%	1,741