West Pennyroyal News

The only school district in Simpson County had rising enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 3,330 students in Simpson County School District, 1.7% higher than the year before.

Enrollment in Simpson County was steady with the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 52.4% of them were boys, and 47.6% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 76.4% of Simpson County School District's total enrollment.

Simpson County School District has a main office in Franklin and is the only school district within Simpson 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
Franklin-Simpson High School	870	840	3.6%
Simpson Elementary School	781	776	0.6%
Franklin-Simpson Middle School	748	743	0.7%
Lincoln Elementary School	482	462	4.3%
Franklin Elementary School	387	382	1.3%
Franklin-Simpson High School West Campus	158	157	0.6%