Hopkinsville Times

There were 117 African American students enrolled in Caldwell County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.6% decrease from the 124 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Caldwell County welcomed a total of 2,015 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 5.8% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Caldwell County, Caldwell County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 37 students, making up 6.5% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Caldwell County High School	6.5%	572
Caldwell County Middle School	7.5%	455
Caldwell County Primary School	4.6%	568
Caldwell County Elementary School	4.8%	420