East Pennyroyal News

There were 2,893 white students enrolled in Rockcastle County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.4% decrease from the 2,904 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Rockcastle County welcomed a total of 3,051 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 94.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Rockcastle County, Rockcastle County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 826 students, making up 95.2% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Brodhead Elementary School	96.3%	534
Rockcastle Academy for Academic Achievement	95.5%	67
Rockcastle County Middle School	93.9%	618
Mt. Vernon Elementary School	94.5%	691
Rockcastle County High School	95.2%	868
Roundstone Elementary School	93.8%	273