Jackson Purchase News

There were 894 first grade students enrolled in McCracken County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 13% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Reidland Elementary School welcomed most of the first grade students in the county, registering 145 students.

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

Statewide, McCracken County ranked 13th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 13th 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 1st Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Reidland Elementary School	145	22.6%	641
Lone Oak Elementary School	130	22.9%	568
Clark Elementary School	129	19.9%	649
Concord Elementary School	121	18.1%	668
Hendron Lone Oak Elementary School	119	21.9%	543
Morgan Elementary School	90	21.7%	415
Heath Elementary School	89	17.3%	513
McNabb Elementary School	71	19.7%	360