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There were 7,705 white students enrolled in McCracken County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.4% increase from the 7,676 white 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, white students comprised 67.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in McCracken County, McCracken County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,748 students, making up 82.8% 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
Concord Elementary School	72.9%	668
McCracken Open Campus School	77.1%	279
McCracken Regional School	54.4%	355
McCracken County High School	82.8%	2,112
Reidland Intermediate School	80.5%	236
Heath Middle School	82.4%	442
Hendron Lone Oak Elementary School	80.7%	543
Lone Oak Intermediate School	81.4%	440
Lone Oak Elementary School	75.4%	568
Lone Oak Middle School	81.7%	837
Reidland Elementary School	78.6%	641
Reidland Middle School	78.4%	356
Heath Elementary School	88.1%	513
Paducah Middle School	39.2%	717
Paducah Head Start Preschool	23.2%	276
Choices Educational Center	29.7%	128
Clark Elementary School	59%	649
McNabb Elementary School	21.7%	360
Morgan Elementary School	31.8%	415
Paducah Tilghman High School	41.6%	936