NW Kentucky News

There were 32 African American students enrolled in Ohio County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 14.3% increase from the 28 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Ohio County welcomed a total of 4,344 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.7% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Ohio County, Ohio County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 10 students, making up 0.8% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Beaver Dam Elementary School	1.2%	591
Ohio County Day Treatment	1.6%	61
Ohio County Alternative Learning Program	2.8%	36
Fordsville Elementary School	0.8%	265
Ohio County Middle School	0.8%	597
Horse Branch Elementary School	0.5%	219
Ohio County High School	0.8%	1,242
Southern Elementary School	0.9%	319
Wayland Alexander Elementary School	0.1%	719
Western Elementary School	0.3%	295