Jackson Purchase News

There were 498 kindergarten students enrolled in Graves County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.9% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Mayfield Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 179 students.

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

Statewide, Graves County ranked 29th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 29th 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 Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Mayfield Elementary School	179	18.5%	966
Graves County Central Elementary School	78	15.1%	515
Wingo Elementary School	59	12.2%	484
Symsonia Elementary School	53	13.1%	405
Sedalia Elementary School	49	12.3%	398
Fancy Farm Elementary School	45	13.7%	329
Farmington Elementary School	35	12.2%	287