Hopkinsville Times

The only school district in Caldwell County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 2,015 students in Caldwell County School District, 0.7% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Caldwell County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 52.7% of them were boys, and 47.3% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 83.3% of Caldwell County School District's total enrollment.

Caldwell County School District has a main office in Princeton and is the only school district within Caldwell 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
Caldwell County High School	572	572	0%
Caldwell County Primary School	568	567	0.2%
Caldwell County Middle School	455	464	-1.9%
Caldwell County Elementary School	420	426	-1.4%