Jackson Purchase News

There were 73 fourth grade students enrolled in Fulton County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 14.1% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Fulton County Elementary School welcomed most of the fourth grade students in the county, registering 51 students.

Within Fulton County schools, the highest student population was found in preschool, with the smallest class sizes seen in 11th grade.

Statewide, Fulton County ranked 114th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 114th 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
Fulton County Elementary School	51	14.4%	354
Fulton Independent School	22	5.9%	375