Jackson Purchase News

There were 23 Asian students enrolled in Marshall County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.2% decrease from the 24 Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Marshall County welcomed a total of 4,900 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Marshall County, Marshall County High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 14 students, making up 1.1% 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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Purchase Youth Village	1.2%	84
Benton Elementary School	0.4%	571
Mc Academy	0.6%	168
Calvert City Elementary School	0.3%	308
Marshall County High School	1.1%	1,312
North Marshall Middle School	0.2%	525
South Marshall Middle School	0.6%	490