Jackson Purchase News

There were 4,384 white students enrolled in Calloway County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.5% increase from the 4,319 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Calloway County welcomed a total of 5,480 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 80% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Calloway County, Calloway County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 776 students, making up 84.5% 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
Calloway County High School	84.5%	918
East Calloway Elementary School	89.4%	348
North Calloway Elementary School	77.1%	645
Southwest Calloway Elementary School	89.1%	475
Calloway County Middle School	84.4%	735
Calloway County Preschool Center	73.6%	220
Calloway County Day Treatment	62.5%	32
Calloway County Alternative Program	88.6%	132
Murray Elementary School	76.9%	571
Murray Middle School	73.5%	684
Murray High School	73.7%	581
Murray Preschool Head Start	63.3%	139