Jackson Purchase News

There were 85 kindergarten students enrolled in Livingston County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 16.7% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

South Livingston Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 64 students.

Within Livingston County schools, the highest student population was found in 10th grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in fifth grade.

Statewide, Livingston County ranked 109th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 109th 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
South Livingston Elementary School	64	16%	400
North Livingston Elementary School	21	13.8%	152