Jackson Purchase News

There were 2,117 students enrolled in Mayfield Independent School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.6% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 53.4% of them were boys, and 46.6% were girls.

The most represented ethnicity among students in the district was white, making up 41.2% of the student population.

Mayfield Independent School District roughly covers three schools within Graves County and has a main office in Mayfield.

Among the three schools in Mayfield Independent School District, Mayfield Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of 966 students in the 2022-23 school year.

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.

Data also shows that between 2019 and 2023, there was an increase of 260% in the number of available teaching posts in Kentucky schools. This often leads to larger class sizes, combining programs, and retaining staff despite potential negative impacts on teacher working conditions.

School Name	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	% change
Mayfield Elementary School	992	966	-2.7%
Mayfield High School	567	581	2.5%
Mayfield Middle School	635	570	-11.4%