NW Kentucky News

The only school district in Webster County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 2,308 students in Webster County School District, 1.9% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Webster County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.5% of them were boys, and 49.5% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 74.5% of Webster County School District's total enrollment.

Webster County School District has a main office in Dixon and is the only school district within Webster County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Webster County High School	707	682	3.7%
Sebree Elementary School	419	431	-2.8%
Webster County Middle School	333	357	-6.7%
Providence Elementary School	323	323	0%
Dixon Elementary School	319	359	-11.1%
Clay Elementary School	214	213	0.5%