NW Kentucky News

There were 4,459 white students enrolled in Muhlenberg County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.4% increase from the 4,230 white 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, white students comprised 89.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Muhlenberg County, Muhlenberg County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,116 students, making up 89.7% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bremen Elementary School	92.4%	409
Muhlenberg South Elementary School	93.4%	607
Central City Elementary School	82%	478
The Renaissance Center	88%	183
Greenville Elementary School	87.8%	640
Muhlenberg South Middle School	90.6%	459
Longest Elementary School	90.5%	421
Muhlenberg North Middle School	89.7%	542
Muhlenberg County High School	89.7%	1,244