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Fulton County Education: 130 multiracial students were enrolled 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

There were 130 multiracial students enrolled in Fulton County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.4% increase from the 127 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Fulton County welcomed a total of 1,050 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 12.4% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Fulton County, Fulton Independent School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 71 students, making up 18.9% of the school's total student body.

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 [51.7%]African American [30.7%]Multiracial [12.4%]Ethnicities with <5% [5.2%]

Enrollment in Fulton County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Fulton County Middle School7.3%137
Fulton County Elementary School9.9%354
Fulton County High School7.6%184
Fulton Independent School18.9%375

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