East Pennyroyal News

There were 3,582 white students enrolled in Taylor County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.4% increase from the 3,567 white 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, white students comprised 81.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Taylor County, Taylor County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 745 students, making up 87.6% 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
Campbellsville Elementary School	68.6%	724
Campbellsville Eagle Academy	64%	25
Campbellsville High School	75.5%	351
Campbellsville Middle School	67.7%	328
Taylor County Primary Center	87.8%	768
Taylor County Elementary School	87.9%	597
Taylor County High School	87.6%	850
Taylor County Middle School	87.5%	654
Lakeview Academy	84.6%	78