Jackson Purchase News

There were 35 fourth grade students enrolled in Hickman County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 22.2% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Hickman County Elementary School is the only school in the county that welcomed fourth grade students.

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

Statewide, Hickman County ranked 119th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 119th 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 4th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Hickman County Elementary School	35	7.7%	456