West Pennyroyal News

There were 1,524 white students enrolled in Todd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1% decrease from the 1,540 white 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, white students comprised 72.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Todd County, North Todd Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 413 students, making up 88.6% 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
North Todd Elementary School	88.6%	466
South Todd Elementary School	60.1%	572
Horizons High School	74.6%	63
Todd County Middle School	74.7%	415
Todd County Central High School	70.7%	580