West Pennyroyal News

There were 196 African American students enrolled in Todd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.9% decrease from the 204 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Todd County welcomed a total of 2,096 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 9.4% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Todd County, South Todd Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 83 students, making up 14.5% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
North Todd Elementary School	1.5%	466
South Todd Elementary School	14.5%	572
Horizons High School	12.7%	63
Todd County Middle School	8.7%	415
Todd County Central High School	10.7%	580