East Pennyroyal News

There were 175 African American students enrolled in Taylor County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 6.7% increase from the 164 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Taylor County welcomed a total of 4,375 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 4% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Taylor County, Campbellsville Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 80 students, making up 11% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Campbellsville Elementary School	11%	724
Campbellsville Eagle Academy	8%	25
Campbellsville High School	6.8%	351
Campbellsville Middle School	9.8%	328
Taylor County Primary Center	1%	768
Taylor County Elementary School	0.7%	597
Taylor County High School	1.4%	850
Taylor County Middle School	1.8%	654
Lakeview Academy	1.3%	78