West Pennyroyal News

There were 31 African American students enrolled in Grayson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 34.8% increase from the 23 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Grayson County welcomed a total of 4,455 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.7% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Grayson County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of eight students.

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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
H. W. Wilkey Elementary School	0.8%	604
Caneyville Elementary School	0.9%	441
Oran P. Lawler Elementary School	0.2%	449
Clarkson Elementary School	0.8%	649
Grayson County High School	0.6%	1,352
Grayson County Middle School	0.9%	902