Jackson Purchase News

The majority of students in Calloway County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 5,256 students attending Calloway County schools, 83.3% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 5.9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Calloway County schools, representing 81.5% of the student body.

Calloway County High School and Calloway County Preschool Center had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county dropped to 0.8% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Calloway County High School	White	89.9%	939
Calloway County Middle School	White	88.3%	698
Murray Middle School	White	76.9%	636
North Calloway Elementary School	White	82.3%	600
Murray High School	White	76.1%	511
Southwest Calloway Elementary School	White	92.5%	478
East Calloway Elementary School	White	88.8%	357
Calloway County Preschool Center	White	81.8%	225
Calloway County Alternative Program	White	91.8%	61
Calloway County Day Treatment	White	89.4%	47