East Kentucky Times

The majority of students in Morgan County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 2,257 students attending Morgan County schools, 94.6% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 3.9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Morgan County schools, representing 95.6% of the student body.

Morgan County Middle School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 8.5% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Morgan County High School	White	97.9%	665
Morgan County Middle School	White	98%	492
Morgan Central Elementary School	White	98.4%	373
Wrigley Elementary School	White	98.8%	331
East Valley Elementary School	White	98.6%	148
Ezel Elementary School	White	95.3%	148
Woodsbend Youth Development Center	African American	74%	100