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Barren County Education: 490 Black students enrolled 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 490 Black students enrolled in Barren County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 21% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Black students made up 5.2% of the 9,367 students in Barren County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the three school districts in Barren County, Barren County School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 82 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 black students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Glasgow Independent School District11.82,713
Caverna Independent School District10.5844
Barren County School District1.45,810

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