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Fulton County Schools: White students most represented ethnicity 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

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

Of the 1,096 students attending Fulton County schools, 53.8% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 33.7%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Fulton County schools, representing 51.6% of the student body.

Fulton County Elementary School and Fulton Independent School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 21.1% 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.

Ethnicities in Fulton County in 2022-23 School Year
White [53.8%]African American [33.7%]Multiracial [9.1%]Ethnicities with <5% [3.4%]

Students' Most Prevalent Ethnicity Percentage in Fulton County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
SchoolMost PrevalentPercent of Total Student BodyTotal Enrollment
Fulton County Elementary SchoolWhite57.4%481
Fulton Independent SchoolWhite43.8%420
Fulton County High SchoolWhite66.7%195

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