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Enrollment Analysis: Multiracial students comprised 7.8% of Hopkins County's student body 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 599 multiracial students enrolled in Hopkins County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.6% increase from the 567 multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 7.8% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Hopkins County, Madisonville North Hopkins High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 92 students, making up 7.4% 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 Hopkins County in 2022-23 School Year
White [78.7%]African American [8.1%]Multiracial [7.8%]Ethnicities with <5% [5.3%]

Enrollment in Hopkins County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Dawson Springs Elementary School4.7%317
Dawson Springs Junior-Senior High School2.7%295
Hopkins County Schools Academy10.4%96
Hopkins County Day Treatment13%100
West Hopkins School3.4%387
Jesse Stuart Elementary School9.8%408
James Madison Middle School6.4%528
Grapevine Elementary School9.9%434
Hanson Elementary School6.6%456
Hopkins County Central High School7.4%826
Browning Springs Middle School11.3%538
Madisonville North Hopkins High School7.4%1,250
South Hopkins Middle School7.1%396
Pride Elementary School9.6%520
West Broadway Elementary School13.9%411
Southside Elementary School6.3%413
Earlington Elementary School6%301

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