NW Kentucky News

There were 429 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Ohio County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.7% decrease from the 432 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 9.9% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Ohio County, Beaver Dam Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 138 students, making up 23.4% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Beaver Dam Elementary School	23.4%	591
Ohio County Day Treatment	8.2%	61
Fordsville Elementary School	4.5%	265
Ohio County Middle School	10.2%	597
Horse Branch Elementary School	1.8%	219
Ohio County High School	9.5%	1,242
Southern Elementary School	8.2%	319
Wayland Alexander Elementary School	7%	719
Western Elementary School	5.1%	295