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Enrollment Analysis: white students comprised 81.1% of Hopkins County’s districts student body in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 6,473 white students enrolled in Hopkins County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 8% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that white students made up 81.1% of the 7,982 students in Hopkins County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the most prevalent ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the two school districts in Hopkins County, Dawson Springs Independent School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 648 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Hopkins 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.

Enrollment Demographics in Hopkins County Districts During 2022-23 School Year
District% of white students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Dawson Springs Independent School District94.6685
Hopkins County School District79.87,297

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