Jackson Purchase News

There were 925 multiracial students enrolled in McCracken County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.8% increase from the 891 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that McCracken County welcomed a total of 11,471 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 8.1% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in McCracken County, Paducah Tilghman High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 106 students, making up 11.3% 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.

School name	% of Multiracial Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Concord Elementary School	6.6%	668
McCracken Open Campus School	6.8%	279
McCracken Regional School	10.4%	355
McCracken County High School	4.3%	2,112
Reidland Intermediate School	5.9%	236
Heath Middle School	5.9%	442
Hendron Lone Oak Elementary School	7.4%	543
Lone Oak Intermediate School	4.8%	440
Lone Oak Elementary School	6%	568
Lone Oak Middle School	3.6%	837
Reidland Elementary School	5.9%	641
Reidland Middle School	7.6%	356
Heath Elementary School	4.1%	513
Paducah Middle School	14.1%	717
Paducah Head Start Preschool	15.9%	276
Choices Educational Center	15.6%	128
Clark Elementary School	12.8%	649
McNabb Elementary School	13.3%	360
Morgan Elementary School	19.5%	415
Paducah Tilghman High School	11.3%	936