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There were 54 multiracial students enrolled in Johnson County schools 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 54 multiracial students enrolled in Johnson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 8.5% decrease from the 59 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Johnson County welcomed a total of 4,518 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 1.2% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Johnson County, Johnson Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 11 students, making up 1.1% 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.

Enrollment in Johnson County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Johnson County Eagle Academy0.4%263
Johnson County Middle School1.4%493
Central Elementary School1.8%385
Flat Gap Elementary School1.3%226
Johnson Central High School1.1%1,003
Porter Elementary School0.9%445
W. R. Castle Memorial Elementary School2.4%421
Highland Elementary School1.3%463
Paintsville Elementary School0.2%467
Paintsville High School1.1%352

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