East Pennyroyal News

There were 2,083 white students enrolled in Casey County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.9% decrease from the 2,102 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Casey County welcomed a total of 2,383 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 87.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Casey County, Casey County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 585 students, making up 87.4% 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
Walnut Hill Elementary School	85.6%	425
Jones Park Elementary School	92%	311
Casey County High School	87.4%	669
Casey County Middle School	87.8%	548
Liberty Elementary School	85.3%	430