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There were 1,164 eighth grade students enrolled in Madison County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.7% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Madison Middle School welcomed most of the eighth grade students in the county, registering 265 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 8th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Madison Middle School	265	36.1%	735
Clark Moores Middle School	206	34.4%	598
B. Michael Caudill Middle School	178	35%	508
Farristown Middle School	177	35.5%	499
Foley Middle School	166	34.6%	480
Berea Community Middle School	95	37%	257
Model High School	61	14.7%	415
Bellevue Transitional School	11	17.2%	64
Madison County Day Treatment	5	10.9%	46