Jackson Purchase News

There were 4,396 white students enrolled in Graves County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.8% decrease from the 4,522 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Graves County welcomed a total of 6,422 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 68.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Graves County, Graves County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 951 students, making up 83.3% 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.

School name	% of White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Mayfield Youth Development Center	25%	36
Gateway Academy High School	72.7%	44
Graves County Central Elementary School	75.5%	515
Fancy Farm Elementary School	79%	329
Farmington Elementary School	87.8%	287
Graves County Middle School	82.4%	665
Sedalia Elementary School	81.4%	398
Symsonia Elementary School	88.9%	405
Wingo Elementary School	82.2%	484
Graves County High School	83.3%	1,142
Mayfield Elementary School	41%	966
Mayfield High School	40.3%	581
Mayfield Middle School	42.6%	570