NW Kentucky News

There were 620 African American students enrolled in Hopkins County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.8% decrease from the 658 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hopkins County welcomed a total of 7,676 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 8.1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Hopkins County, Madisonville North Hopkins High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 148 students, making up 11.8% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Dawson Springs Elementary School	0.6%	317
Dawson Springs Junior-Senior High School	0.3%	295
Hopkins County Schools Academy	15.6%	96
Hopkins County Day Treatment	7%	100
West Hopkins School	1.6%	387
Jesse Stuart Elementary School	15.4%	408
James Madison Middle School	9.1%	528
Grapevine Elementary School	8.8%	434
Hanson Elementary School	2.9%	456
Hopkins County Central High School	5.7%	826
Browning Springs Middle School	15.1%	538
Madisonville North Hopkins High School	11.8%	1,250
South Hopkins Middle School	4.5%	396
Pride Elementary School	11.9%	520
West Broadway Elementary School	10.9%	411
Southside Elementary School	1.5%	413
Earlington Elementary School	6.6%	301