NW Kentucky News

There were 6,042 white students enrolled in Hopkins County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.5% decrease from the 6,200 white 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, white students comprised 78.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Hopkins County, Madisonville North Hopkins High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 939 students, making up 75.1% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Dawson Springs Elementary School	92.1%	317
Dawson Springs Junior-Senior High School	93.9%	295
Hopkins County Schools Academy	59.4%	96
Hopkins County Day Treatment	78%	100
West Hopkins School	92.5%	387
Jesse Stuart Elementary School	67.2%	408
James Madison Middle School	78.8%	528
Grapevine Elementary School	68.7%	434
Hanson Elementary School	86.4%	456
Hopkins County Central High School	81.2%	826
Browning Springs Middle School	67.3%	538
Madisonville North Hopkins High School	75.1%	1,250
South Hopkins Middle School	85.1%	396
Pride Elementary School	73.7%	520
West Broadway Elementary School	69.6%	411
Southside Elementary School	89.8%	413
Earlington Elementary School	82.7%	301