Jackson Purchase News

There were 762 second grade students enrolled in McCracken County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 8.5% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Lone Oak Elementary School welcomed most of the second grade students in the county, registering 128 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 2nd Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Lone Oak Elementary School	128	22.5%	568
Reidland Elementary School	124	19.3%	641
Hendron Lone Oak Elementary School	114	21%	543
Concord Elementary School	94	14.1%	668
Clark Elementary School	90	13.9%	649
Heath Elementary School	83	16.2%	513
McNabb Elementary School	65	18.1%	360
Morgan Elementary School	64	15.4%	415