NW Kentucky News

There were 5,585 white students enrolled in Henderson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.9% decrease from the 5,634 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Henderson County welcomed a total of 7,818 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 71.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Henderson County, Henderson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,566 students, making up 74.8% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bend Gate Elementary School	65.2%	469
The Central Academy	64.6%	517
Cairo Elementary School	84.2%	278
A. B. Chandler Elementary School	84.1%	302
East Heights Elementary School	65.2%	382
Henderson County High School	74.8%	2,094
Henderson County North Middle School	71.1%	788
Niagara Elementary School	94.8%	288
Thelma B. Johnson Early Learning Center	58.4%	459
South Heights Elementary School	53.8%	468
Spottsville Elementary School	83.8%	581
Henderson County South Middle School	72.6%	781
Jefferson Elementary School	57.2%	411