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Enrollment Analysis: Black students comprised 4.2% of Calloway County’s districts student body 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 215 Black students enrolled in Calloway County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 15% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Black students made up 4.2% of the 5,150 students in Calloway County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the two school districts in Calloway County, Calloway County School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 58 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Calloway County.

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 Demographics in Calloway County Districts During 2022-23 School Year
District% of black students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Murray Independent School District8.51,847
Calloway County School District1.83,303

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