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Grayson County Schools: White students most represented ethnicity 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

The majority of students in Grayson County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 4,797 students attending Grayson County schools, 94.3% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 2.3%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Grayson County schools, representing 94.3% of the student body.

H. W. Wilkey Elementary School, Oran P. Lawler Elementary School, and Grayson County Middle School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 6.9% compared to the previous year.

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.

Ethnicities in Grayson County in 2022-23 School Year
White [94.3%]Ethnicities with <5% [5.7%]

Students' Most Prevalent Ethnicity Percentage in Grayson County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
SchoolMost PrevalentPercent of Total Student BodyTotal Enrollment
Grayson County High SchoolWhite94.7%1,438
Grayson County Middle SchoolWhite93.9%1,040
Clarkson Elementary SchoolWhite95.5%730
H. W. Wilkey Elementary SchoolWhite92.2%630
Oran P. Lawler Elementary SchoolWhite92.1%469
Caneyville Elementary SchoolWhite98.4%428
Grayson County Alternative EducationWhite85.5%62

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