Hopkinsville Times

There were 3,339 African American students enrolled in Christian County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.2% decrease from the 3,345 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Christian County welcomed a total of 10,267 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 32.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Christian County, Christian County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 442 students, making up 33.9% 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
Christian County Public Schools Virtual Learning Academy	28.6%	238
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School	49.5%	666
Cumberland Hall School	12%	691
Freedom Elementary School	51%	671
Christian County High School	33.9%	1,305
Christian County Middle School	35%	705
Crofton Elementary School	1.3%	450
Hopkinsville High School	35.1%	1,071
Indian Hills Elementary School	34.7%	648
Hopkinsville Middle School	36.3%	620
Bluegrass Learning Academy	50.9%	426
Millbrooke Elementary School	27.1%	743
Pembroke Elementary School	26.2%	779
Sinking Fork Elementary School	30.9%	472
South Christian Elementary School	27.8%	742
Christian County Day Treatment	52.5%	40