Hopkinsville Times

There were 27 African American students enrolled in Lyon County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.6% decrease from the 28 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lyon County welcomed a total of 1,061 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 2.5% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the three schools in Lyon County, Lyon County Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 students, making up 2.4% 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
Lyon County Elementary School	2.4%	491
Lyon County Middle School	2.3%	259
Lyon County High School	2.9%	311