NW Kentucky News

There were 30 Asian students enrolled in Muhlenberg County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 87.5% increase from the 16 Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Muhlenberg County welcomed a total of 4,983 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Muhlenberg County, Central City Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 students, making up 2.5% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bremen Elementary School	0.2%	409
Central City Elementary School	2.5%	478
Greenville Elementary School	0.3%	640
Muhlenberg South Middle School	0.2%	459
Longest Elementary School	0.7%	421
Muhlenberg North Middle School	0.2%	542
Muhlenberg County High School	0.8%	1,244