Hopkinsville Times

There were 1,678 white students enrolled in Caldwell County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.3% decrease from the 1,717 white 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, white students comprised 83.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Caldwell County, Caldwell County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 489 students, making up 85.5% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Caldwell County High School	85.5%	572
Caldwell County Middle School	80.4%	455
Caldwell County Primary School	81.7%	568
Caldwell County Elementary School	85.5%	420