NW Kentucky News

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

Of the 5,315 students attending Muhlenberg County schools, 91.3% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 3.8%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Muhlenberg County schools, representing 90.3% of the student body.

Muhlenberg South Elementary School and Longest Elementary 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 13.5% 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
Muhlenberg County High School	White	92.3%	1,409
Muhlenberg North Middle School	White	91.5%	649
Greenville Elementary School	White	89.1%	612
Muhlenberg South Elementary School	White	94.3%	576
Muhlenberg South Middle School	White	91.6%	533
Central City Elementary School	White	83.1%	478
Longest Elementary School	White	92.2%	472
Bremen Elementary School	White	93.8%	450
The Renaissance Center	White	92.6%	136