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Webster County Education: 80 multiracial 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 80 multiracial students enrolled in Webster County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 13% decrease from the 92 multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 3.5% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Webster County, Webster County High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 25 students, making up 3.5% 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 Webster County in 2022-23 School Year
White [74.5%]Hispanic or Latino [18.7%]Ethnicities with <5% [6.5%]

Enrollment in Webster County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Clay Elementary School3.7%214
Dixon Elementary School3.8%319
Providence Elementary School6.2%323
Sebree Elementary School1%419
Webster County Middle School3.3%333
Webster County High School3.5%707

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