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There were 2,612 white students enrolled in Simpson County schools in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 2,612 white students enrolled in Simpson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.4% increase from the 2,577 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Simpson County welcomed a total of 3,426 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 76.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Simpson County, Franklin-Simpson High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 657 students, making up 75.5% 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.

Ethnicities in Simpson County in 2022-23 School Year
White [76.2%]African American [9.1%]Multiracial [7.1%]Hispanic or Latino [6.6%]Ethnicities with <5% [1%]

Enrollment in Simpson County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of White Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Franklin-Simpson High School West Campus75.3%158
Franklin Elementary School77%387
Franklin-Simpson Middle School74.7%748
Franklin-Simpson High School75.5%870
Lincoln Elementary School75.5%482
Simpson Elementary School78.7%781

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