Hopkinsville Times

The only school district in Lyon County had rising enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 1,061 students in Lyon County School District, 0.3% higher than the year before.

Enrollment in Lyon County was steady with the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 53.1% of them were boys, and 46.9% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 87.7% of Lyon County School District's total enrollment.

Lyon County School District has a main office in Eddyville and is the only school district within Lyon County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Lyon County Elementary School	491	495	-0.8%
Lyon County High School	311	314	-1%
Lyon County Middle School	259	249	4%