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Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 1.4% of Knott County’s's only district student body in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 34 Hispanic students enrolled in Knott County's only school district in the 2022-23 school year, 61.9% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hispanic students made up 1.4% of the 2,514 students in Knott County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the second most represented ethnicity in the county school district.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Knott 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.

Enrollment Demographics in Knott County District During 2022-23 School Year
District% of hispanic students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Knott County School District1.42,514

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