NW Kentucky News

There were 3,794 white students enrolled in Ohio County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.9% decrease from the 3,869 white 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, white students comprised 87.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Ohio County, Ohio County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,093 students, making up 88% 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
Beaver Dam Elementary School	72.9%	591
Ohio County Day Treatment	86.9%	61
Ohio County Alternative Learning Program	94.4%	36
Fordsville Elementary School	94%	265
Ohio County Middle School	86.4%	597
Horse Branch Elementary School	96.8%	219
Ohio County High School	88%	1,242
Southern Elementary School	89.7%	319
Wayland Alexander Elementary School	90.5%	719
Western Elementary School	91.2%	295