West Pennyroyal News

There were 380 ninth grade students enrolled in Grayson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 9.1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Grayson County High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 366 students.

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

Statewide, Grayson County ranked 43rd in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 43rd 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
Grayson County High School	366	27.1%	1,352
Grayson County Alternative Education	14	24.1%	58