NW Kentucky News

The majority of students in Daviess County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 19,129 students attending Daviess County schools, 75.7% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 7.5%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Daviess County schools, representing 71.8% of the student body.

Daviess County High School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 6% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Daviess County High School	White	91.5%	1,736
Apollo High School	White	79.6%	1,497
Owensboro High School	White	64.4%	1,412
College View Middle School	White	83.4%	937
F. T. Burns Middle School	White	76.4%	925
Daviess County Middle School	White	86%	893
Owensboro Innovation Middle School	White	59.7%	821
Owensboro Middle School	White	59.7%	775
Deer Park Elementary School	White	76.7%	661
F. T. Burns Elementary School	White	64.7%	620
Highland Elementary School	White	82.4%	613
East View Elementary School	White	82.8%	612
Tamarack Elementary School	White	74.2%	598
Estes Elementary School	White	53.6%	563
Country Heights Elementary School	White	90.2%	528
Audubon Elementary School	White	81.6%	521
Meadow Lands Elementary School	White	78%	505
Sorgho Elementary School	White	81.7%	503
Southern Oaks Elementary School	White	76.2%	499
Newton Parrish Elementary School	White	69.5%	465
Foust Elementary School	White	42.3%	444
West Louisville Elementary School	White	90.6%	395
Valley Elementary School	White	88.3%	384
Whitesville Elementary School	White	93.9%	375
Heritage Park High School	White	86.8%	280
Valley High School	White	83.6%	213
Emerson Academy	White	54.3%	127
Owensboro Day Treatment	White	71.9%	57