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Enrollment Analysis: white students comprised 82% of Barren County’s districts student body in 2022-23 school year

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

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

There were 7,680 white students enrolled in Barren County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 5.6% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that white students made up 82% of the 9,367 students in Barren County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the most prevalent ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the three school districts in Barren County, Barren County School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 5,245 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Barren 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.

Enrollment Demographics in Barren County Districts During 2022-23 School Year
District% of white students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Barren County School District90.35,810
Caverna Independent School District74.6844
Glasgow Independent School District66.52,713

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