Jackson Purchase News

There were 4,533 white students enrolled in Marshall County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.2% decrease from the 4,682 white 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, white students comprised 92.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Marshall County, Marshall County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,227 students, making up 93.5% 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
Purchase Youth Village	77.4%	84
Central Elementary School	94.1%	511
Benton Elementary School	89.3%	571
Mc Academy	94%	168
Calvert City Elementary School	95.1%	308
Jonathan Elementary School	86.2%	276
Marshall County High School	93.5%	1,312
North Marshall Middle School	94.9%	525
Sharpe Elementary School	92.2%	344
South Marshall Elementary School	94.9%	311
South Marshall Middle School	92%	490