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

Of the 5,207 students attending Marshall County schools, 95.3% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 2.2%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Marshall County schools, representing 92.4% of the student body.

Marshall County High School, Sharpe Elementary School, and South Marshall Middle 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 7.2% 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
Marshall County High School	White	96.7%	1,442
Benton Elementary School	White	94.3%	611
North Marshall Middle School	White	96.5%	596
South Marshall Middle School	White	95%	578
Central Elementary School	White	96.7%	572
South Marshall Elementary School	White	96.2%	365
Calvert City Elementary School	White	91.9%	360
Sharpe Elementary School	White	94.4%	358
Jonathan Elementary School	White	96.1%	257
Purchase Youth Village	White	73.5%	68