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There was one American Indian or Alaska Native student enrolled in Ballard County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 50% decrease from the two American Indian or Alaska Native students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Ballard County welcomed a total of 1,120 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Ballard Memorial High School was the only school in the county which enrolled American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school 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 name	% of American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Ballard Memorial High School	0.4%	275