West Pennyroyal News

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

Of the 2,268 students attending Todd County schools, 77.3% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 10%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Todd County schools, representing 72.7% of the student body.

South Todd Elementary 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 7.1% 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.

School	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
South Todd Elementary School	White	63.8%	630
Todd County Central High School	White	82.1%	560
Todd County Middle School	White	74.5%	509
North Todd Elementary School	White	91.8%	500
Horizons High School	White	78.3%	69