NW Kentucky News

There were 153 first grade students enrolled in Union County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.5% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Sturgis Elementary School welcomed most of the first grade students in the county, registering 62 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 1st Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Sturgis Elementary School	62	16.3%	381
Morganfield Elementary School	52	15%	346
Uniontown Elementary School	39	18.3%	213