West Pennyroyal News

There were 4,181 white students enrolled in Grayson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.2% decrease from the 4,231 white 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, white students comprised 93.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Grayson County, Grayson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,276 students, making up 94.4% 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
H. W. Wilkey Elementary School	90.6%	604
Caneyville Elementary School	93%	441
Oran P. Lawler Elementary School	93.8%	449
Clarkson Elementary School	95.2%	649
Grayson County High School	94.4%	1,352
Grayson County Middle School	94.9%	902
Grayson County Alternative Education	91.4%	58