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The only school district in Bath County had rising enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 2,172 students in Bath County School District, 2% higher than the year before.

Enrollment in Bath County was steady with the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 53% of them were boys, and 47% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 93.2% of Bath County School District's total enrollment.

Bath County School District has a main office in Owingsville and is the only school district within Bath County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Bath County High School	667	631	5.7%
Owingsville Elementary School	591	566	4.4%
Bath County Middle School	460	511	-10%
Crossroads Elementary School	456	433	5.3%
Second Chance Academy	39	30	30%