NW Kentucky News

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

Of the 8,385 students attending Hopkins County schools, 80.5% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 8.2%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Hopkins County schools, representing 79.1% of the student body.

Hopkins County Central 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 7% 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
Madisonville North Hopkins High School	White	77.6%	1,090
Hopkins County Central High School	White	85.5%	947
Jesse Stuart Elementary School	White	71.5%	621
Hanson Elementary School	White	86.1%	598
James Madison Middle School	White	79.2%	597
Pride Elementary School	White	66.4%	530
Southside Elementary School	White	92.2%	510
West Hopkins School	White	93.8%	498
Browning Springs Middle School	White	69.6%	483
West Broadway Elementary School	White	73.2%	448
South Hopkins Middle School	White	84.4%	437
Earlington Elementary School	White	77.8%	406
Grapevine Elementary School	White	69.3%	381
Dawson Springs Elementary School	White	93%	355
Dawson Springs Junior-Senior High School	White	96.4%	330
Hopkins County Schools Academy	White	78.9%	90
Hopkins County Day Treatment	White	67.2%	64