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There were 1,082 sixth grade students enrolled in Madison County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 11.7% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Madison Middle School welcomed most of the sixth grade students in the county, registering 240 students.

Within Madison County schools, the highest student population was found in eighth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Madison County ranked eighth in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked eighth the year before.

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	# of 6th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Madison Middle School	240	32.7%	735
Clark Moores Middle School	209	34.9%	598
B. Michael Caudill Middle School	184	36.2%	508
Farristown Middle School	162	32.5%	499
Foley Middle School	144	30%	480
Berea Community Middle School	84	32.7%	257
Model High School	56	13.5%	415
Bellevue Transitional School	3	4.7%	64