East Pennyroyal News

There were 18 African American students enrolled in Clinton County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 25% decrease from the 24 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Clinton County welcomed a total of 1,720 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Clinton County, Foothills Academy recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 10 students, making up 20% 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
Albany Elementary School	0.6%	489
Foothills Academy	20%	50
Clinton County Middle School	0.2%	468
Clinton County High School	0.9%	449