NW Kentucky News

There were 53 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Union County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 15.2% increase from the 46 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 2.4% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Union County, Union County Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 17 students, making up 3.7% 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
Morganfield Elementary School	3.2%	346
Union County Learning Academy	8.6%	35
Sturgis Elementary School	1%	381
Union County Middle School	3.7%	459
Union County High School	2.1%	660
Uniontown Elementary School	1.9%	213