West Pennyroyal News

There were 330 African American students enrolled in Logan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.1% decrease from the 344 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Logan County welcomed a total of 5,113 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 6.5% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Logan County, R. E. Stevenson Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 86 students, making up 15.8% 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
Adairville Elementary School	6.3%	398
Auburn Elementary School	2.1%	778
Chandlers Elementary School	1.8%	505
Lewisburg Elementary School	0.7%	545
Olmstead Elementary School	4.3%	437
The Academy	1.4%	147
Logan County High School	3.1%	1,002
Russellville Primary Academy	17.8%	129
R. E. Stevenson Elementary School	15.8%	545
Russellville High School	19.3%	357
Russellville Middle School	17.6%	262