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There were 39 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Daviess County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.4% increase from the 37 American Indian or Alaska Native students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Daviess County welcomed a total of 18,073 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 28 schools in Daviess County, Daviess County High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five students, making up 0.3% 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 American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Apollo High School	0.1%	1,545
Meadow Lands Elementary School	0.6%	509
F. T. Burns Middle School	0.3%	771
Daviess County High School	0.3%	1,800
Daviess County Middle School	0.3%	862
Highland Elementary School	0.2%	505
Deer Park Elementary School	0.2%	526
Sorgho Elementary School	0.5%	391
Audubon Elementary School	0.2%	421
Tamarack Elementary School	0.3%	601
Whitesville Elementary School	0.8%	388
F. T. Burns Elementary School	0.4%	535
Valley High School	0.6%	176
Valley Elementary School	0.3%	301
Heritage Park High School	0.5%	218
Cravens Elementary School	0.3%	396
Emerson Academy	0.7%	138
Estes Elementary School	0.2%	511
Newton Parrish Elementary School	0.3%	599
Owensboro Middle School	0.2%	879
Owensboro High School	0.1%	1,430