Jackson Purchase News

There were 94 preschool students enrolled in Carlisle County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 17.5% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Carlisle County Elementary School is the only school in the county that welcomed preschool students.

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

Statewide, Carlisle County ranked 118th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 118th 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 Preschool Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Carlisle County Elementary School	94	20.8%	453