KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education
KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education
Data showed that Multiracial students made up 6.2% of the 11,082 students in McCracken County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the third most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.
Among the two school districts in McCracken County, McCracken County School District recorded the highest enrollment of Multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 364 students.
The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with McCracken 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.
| District | % of multiracial students enrolment | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Paducah Independent School District | 10.2 | 3,164 |
| McCracken County School District | 4.6 | 7,918 |
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