Jackson Purchase News

The only school district in Livingston County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 1,162 students in Livingston County School District, 3.5% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Livingston County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 53.1% of them were boys, and 46.9% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 89.8% of Livingston County School District's total enrollment.

Livingston County School District has a main office in Smithland and is the only school district within Livingston County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
South Livingston Elementary School	400	410	-2.4%
Livingston Central High School	347	357	-2.8%
Livingston County Middle School	270	282	-4.3%
North Livingston Elementary School	152	160	-5%