NW Kentucky News

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

Of the 8,202 students attending Henderson County schools, 77.3% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 9.3%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Henderson County schools, representing 73.2% of the student body.

Henderson County South Middle 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 6.6% 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
Henderson County High School	White	81%	2,134
Henderson County North Middle School	White	82.9%	862
Henderson County South Middle School	White	75.5%	858
East Heights Elementary School	White	78.5%	613
South Heights Elementary School	White	62.5%	579
Bend Gate Elementary School	White	68.4%	557
Spottsville Elementary School	White	89.2%	465
Thelma B. Johnson Early Learning Center	White	69.5%	436
Jefferson Elementary School	White	56.7%	397
A. B. Chandler Elementary School	White	79.5%	347
Cairo Elementary School	White	85.2%	325
Niagara Elementary School	White	94.1%	320
The Central Academy	White	74.1%	309