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Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 68.5% of Graves County's student body 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 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.

Ethnicities in Graves County in 2022-23 School Year
White [68.5%]Hispanic or Latino [17.5%]Multiracial [7.8%]African American [5.6%]Ethnicities with <5% [0.6%]

Enrollment in Graves County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of White Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Mayfield Youth Development Center25%36
Gateway Academy High School72.7%44
Graves County Central Elementary School75.5%515
Fancy Farm Elementary School79%329
Farmington Elementary School87.8%287
Graves County Middle School82.4%665
Sedalia Elementary School81.4%398
Symsonia Elementary School88.9%405
Wingo Elementary School82.2%484
Graves County High School83.3%1,142
Mayfield Elementary School41%966
Mayfield High School40.3%581
Mayfield Middle School42.6%570

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