East Pennyroyal News

There were 2,897 white students enrolled in Wayne County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.2% decrease from the 2,931 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Wayne County welcomed a total of 3,468 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 83.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Wayne County, Wayne County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 845 students, making up 85.9% 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
Wayne County Middle School	83.7%	707
Wayne County Learning Academy	75.4%	61
Lake Cumberland Youth Development Center	18.3%	71
Otter Creek Academy	78%	50
Monticello Elementary School	85.7%	658
Wayne County High School	85.9%	984
Walker Early Learning Center	83.3%	432
Bell Elementary School	86.7%	505