East Kentucky Times

There were 196 ninth grade students enrolled in Morgan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 7.7% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Morgan County High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 174 students.

Within Morgan County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Morgan County ranked 90th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 90th the year before.

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	# of 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Morgan County High School	174	26.9%	647
Woodsbend Youth Development Center	22	33.3%	66