West Pennyroyal News

There were 56 Asian students enrolled in Barren County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.7% increase from the 53 Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Barren County welcomed a total of 9,223 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 18 schools in Barren County, Glasgow High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 students, making up 1.9% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
BAVEL	2.2%	275
North Jackson Elementary School	0.3%	583
Barren County High School	0.1%	1,459
Barren County Middle School	0.3%	698
Red Cross Elementary School	0.5%	753
Temple Hill Elementary School	0.7%	298
Highland Elementary School	1.2%	816
Glasgow High School	1.9%	639
Glasgow Middle School	1.5%	589
South Green Elementary School	1.2%	595