West Pennyroyal News

The only school district in Metcalfe County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 1,548 students in Metcalfe County School District, 1.1% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Metcalfe County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 53.4% of them were boys, and 46.6% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 94.5% of Metcalfe County School District's total enrollment.

Metcalfe County School District has a main office in Edmonton and is the only school district within Metcalfe County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Metcalfe County Elementary School	691	704	-1.8%
Metcalfe County High School	474	480	-1.3%
Metcalfe County Middle School	383	382	0.3%