West Pennyroyal News

There were 734 ninth grade students enrolled in Barren County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.5% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Barren County High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 398 students.

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

Statewide, Barren County ranked 18th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 18th 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 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Barren County High School	398	27.3%	1,459
Glasgow High School	183	28.6%	639
Caverna High School	71	30.5%	233
BAVEL	32	11.6%	275
Happy Valley Learning Center	21	38.9%	54
College Street Campus	16	18.6%	86
Success Academy	13	9.2%	142