Hopkinsville Times

The majority of students in Crittenden County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 1,457 students attending Crittenden County schools, 94.7% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 2.9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Crittenden County schools, representing 94% of the student body.

Crittenden County Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county dropped to 3.1% compared to the previous 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.

School	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Crittenden County Elementary School	White	92.6%	718
Crittenden County High School	White	96.6%	379
Crittenden County Middle School	White	96.9%	350
Pathway Academy High School	White	100%	10