NW Kentucky News

There were 117 12th grade students enrolled in Union County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 22.5% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Union County High School welcomed most of the 12th grade students in the county, registering 104 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 12th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Union County High School	104	15.8%	660
Union County Learning Academy	13	37.1%	35