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Union County Education: 5 Asian students were enrolled in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were five Asian students enrolled in Union County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 16.7% decrease from the six Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Union County welcomed a total of 2,219 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Union County, Union County High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four students, making up 0.6% 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.

Ethnicities in Union County in 2022-23 School Year
White [85.1%]African American [6.3%]Multiracial [5.9%]Ethnicities with <5% [2.7%]

Enrollment in Union County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Asian Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Union County Middle School0.2%459
Union County High School0.6%660

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