NW Kentucky News

There were 1,543 white students enrolled in Hancock County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.1% increase from the 1,542 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hancock County welcomed a total of 1,681 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 91.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Hancock County, Hancock County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 481 students, making up 93.4% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Hancock County High School	93.4%	515
North Hancock Elementary School	90.2%	530
Hancock County Middle School	90.7%	356
Hancock County Alternative Program	82.9%	35
South Hancock Elementary School	94.7%	245