West Pennyroyal News

There were 7,253 white students enrolled in Barren County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3% decrease from the 7,481 white 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, white students comprised 78.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 18 schools in Barren County, Barren County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,320 students, making up 90.5% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Austin Tracy Elementary School	90.2%	366
College Street Campus	80.2%	86
BAVEL	83.6%	275
North Jackson Elementary School	91.4%	583
Barren County High School	90.5%	1,459
Eastern Elementary School	92.1%	378
Barren County Middle School	87.4%	698
Hiseville Elementary School	89.8%	322
Park City Elementary School	84.9%	436
Red Cross Elementary School	84.5%	753
Temple Hill Elementary School	84.2%	298
Caverna Elementary School	74.6%	354
Caverna Middle School	70.7%	147
Caverna High School	70%	233
Success Academy	64.1%	142
Highland Elementary School	62%	816
Happy Valley Learning Center	59.3%	54
Glasgow High School	64.6%	639
Glasgow Middle School	58.7%	589
South Green Elementary School	58.5%	595