NW Kentucky News

There were 624 seventh grade students enrolled in Hopkins County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Browning Springs Middle School welcomed most of the seventh grade students in the county, registering 198 students.

Within Hopkins County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Hopkins County ranked 22nd in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 22nd the year before.

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	# of 7th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Browning Springs Middle School	198	36.8%	538
James Madison Middle School	168	31.8%	528
South Hopkins Middle School	140	35.4%	396
West Hopkins School	59	15.2%	387
Dawson Springs Junior-Senior High School	48	16.3%	295
Hopkins County Day Treatment	11	11%	100