Jackson Purchase News

There were 845 11th grade students enrolled in McCracken County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.9% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

McCracken County High School welcomed most of the 11th grade students in the county, registering 532 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 11th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
McCracken County High School	532	25.2%	2,112
Paducah Tilghman High School	208	22.2%	936
McCracken Regional School	46	13%	355
McCracken Open Campus School	42	15.1%	279
Choices Educational Center	17	13.3%	128