NW Kentucky News

There were 434 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Webster County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.8% increase from the 414 Hispanic or Latino students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Webster County welcomed a total of 2,315 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 18.7% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Webster County, Sebree Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 219 students, making up 52.3% 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
Clay Elementary School	2.8%	214
Dixon Elementary School	3.8%	319
Providence Elementary School	4%	323
Sebree Elementary School	52.3%	419
Webster County Middle School	18.3%	333
Webster County High School	17.4%	707