NW Kentucky News

There were 183 kindergarten students enrolled in Union County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 13% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Morganfield Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 76 students.

Within Union County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in 12th grade.

Statewide, Union County ranked 85th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 85th 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 Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Morganfield Elementary School	76	22%	346
Sturgis Elementary School	65	17.1%	381
Uniontown Elementary School	42	19.7%	213