Jackson Purchase News

There were 376 seventh grade students enrolled in Marshall County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.8% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

North Marshall Middle School welcomed most of the seventh grade students in the county, registering 184 students.

Within Marshall County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Marshall County ranked 36th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 36th the year before.

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	# of 7th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
North Marshall Middle School	184	35%	525
South Marshall Middle School	179	36.5%	490
Purchase Youth Village	10	11.9%	84
Mc Academy	3	1.8%	168