East Kentucky Times

There were 35 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Morgan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 40% increase from the 25 Hispanic or Latino students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Morgan County welcomed a total of 2,115 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 1.7% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Morgan County, Morgan County High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 11 students, making up 1.7% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Morgan Central Elementary School	0.6%	337
Wrigley Elementary School	1.4%	348
East Valley Elementary School	0.7%	143
Morgan County Middle School	1.4%	442
Morgan County High School	1.7%	647
Woodsbend Youth Development Center	15.2%	66