East Pennyroyal News

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

Of the 11,853 students attending Pulaski County schools, 90.4% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 4.8%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Pulaski County schools, representing 87.9% of the student body.

Burnside Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 4.9% 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
Southwestern High School	White	92.6%	1,375
Pulaski County High School	White	93.4%	1,311
Southern Middle School	White	90.9%	1,125
Northern Middle School	White	93.6%	927
Southern Elementary School	White	87.5%	757
Hopkins Elementary School	White	82.1%	741
Pulaski Elementary School	White	90.1%	678
Oak Hill Elementary School	White	87.7%	585
Burnside Elementary School	White	94.8%	553
Meece Middle School	White	80.7%	540
Northern Elementary School	White	92.1%	493
Science Hill Elementary School	White	94.2%	448
Nancy Elementary School	White	96.7%	425
Shopville Elementary School	White	95.2%	419
Eubank Elementary School	White	92.5%	413
Memorial Education Center	White	87.5%	313
Eagle Academy	White	80.9%	141