East Kentucky Times

There were 2,024 white students enrolled in Morgan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.8% increase from the 1,988 white 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, white students comprised 95.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Morgan County, Morgan County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 622 students, making up 96.1% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Morgan Central Elementary School	98.2%	337
Wrigley Elementary School	98.3%	348
East Valley Elementary School	97.9%	143
Ezel Elementary School	100%	132
Morgan County Middle School	97.3%	442
Morgan County High School	96.1%	647
Woodsbend Youth Development Center	40.9%	66