East Pennyroyal News

The majority of students in Taylor County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 4,043 students attending Taylor County schools, 85.1% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 6.2%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Taylor County schools, representing 82.6% of the student body.

Campbellsville High School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county dropped to 4.4% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Taylor County High School	White	92.1%	866
Taylor County Primary Center	White	88.5%	678
Taylor County Middle School	White	89.7%	663
Campbellsville Elementary School	White	72.1%	602
Campbellsville High School	White	166.9%	329
Campbellsville Middle School	White	77.8%	252
Campbellsville Eagle Academy	White	74.1%	27