Jackson Purchase News

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

Of the 6,395 students attending Graves County schools, 74% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 12.6%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Graves County schools, representing 69.6% of the student body.

Farmington Elementary School 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 1.6% 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
Graves County High School	White	87.9%	1,343
Mayfield Elementary School	White	42.5%	831
Graves County Middle School	White	88.7%	621
Mayfield Middle School	White	43.3%	593
Graves County Central Elementary School	White	82.6%	545
Wingo Elementary School	White	86.3%	512
Sedalia Elementary School	White	83.7%	416
Symsonia Elementary School	White	92.6%	340
Farmington Elementary School	White	86.3%	321
Fancy Farm Elementary School	White	91.8%	232
Gateway Academy High School	White	86.2%	87
Mayfield Youth Development Center	White	74.2%	31