West Pennyroyal News

There were 343 kindergarten students enrolled in Logan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 31.4% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

R. E. Stevenson Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 87 students.

Within Logan County schools, the highest student population was found in first grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in fifth grade.

Statewide, Logan County ranked 34th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 34th the year before.

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	# of Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
R. E. Stevenson Elementary School	87	16%	545
Auburn Elementary School	83	10.7%	778
Lewisburg Elementary School	56	10.3%	545
Chandlers Elementary School	48	9.5%	505
Olmstead Elementary School	38	8.7%	437
Adairville Elementary School	29	7.3%	398
Cougar Virtual Academy	2	25%	8