West Pennyroyal News

There were 1,463 white students enrolled in Metcalfe County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.9% decrease from the 1,476 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Metcalfe County welcomed a total of 1,548 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 94.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the three schools in Metcalfe County, Metcalfe County Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 654 students, making up 94.6% 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
Metcalfe County Middle School	94%	383
Metcalfe County High School	94.7%	474
Metcalfe County Elementary School	94.6%	691