Jackson Purchase News

There were 366 12th grade students enrolled in Marshall County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 11.6% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Marshall County High School welcomed most of the 12th grade students in the county, registering 282 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 12th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Marshall County High School	282	21.5%	1,312
Mc Academy	82	48.8%	168
Purchase Youth Village	2	2.4%	84