East Pennyroyal News

There were 158 Black students enrolled in Taylor County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 0.6% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Black students made up 3.9% of the 4,032 students in Taylor County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the third most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the two school districts in Taylor County, Campbellsville Independent School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 103 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Taylor 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.

District	% of black students enrolment	Total enrollment
Campbellsville Independent School District	8.6	1,199
Taylor County School District	1.9	2,833