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Morgan County Education: 9 multiracial students were enrolled 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 nine multiracial students enrolled in Morgan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 12.5% increase from the eight multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Morgan County, Morgan County High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five students, making up 0.8% 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.

Enrollment in Morgan County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Morgan Central Elementary School0.3%337
Morgan County High School0.8%647
Woodsbend Youth Development Center4.5%66

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