Jackson Purchase News

There were 11 African American students enrolled in Livingston County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Livingston County welcomed a total of 1,169 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.9% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Livingston County, South Livingston Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five students, making up 1.2% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
North Livingston Elementary School	1.3%	152
South Livingston Elementary School	1.2%	400
Livingston Central High School	0.3%	347
Livingston County Middle School	1.1%	270