West Pennyroyal News

There were 166 multiracial students enrolled in Russellville Independent School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.1% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Russellville Independent School District welcomed 1,293 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 12.8% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the district.

Russellville Independent School District roughly covers four schools within Logan County and has a main office in Russellville.

Among the four schools in Russellville Independent School District, R. E. Stevenson Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 63 students.

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.

Data also shows that between 2019 and 2023, there was an increase of 260% in the number of available teaching posts in Kentucky schools. This often leads to larger class sizes, combining programs, and retaining staff despite potential negative impacts on teacher working conditions.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total Multiracial Students	Multiracial %
2022-23	1,293	166	12.8%
2021-22	1,319	161	12.2%
2020-21	1,272	165	13%
2019-20	1,092	141	12.9%