East Pennyroyal News

There were 19 Asian students enrolled in Marion County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 13.6% decrease from the 22 Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Marion County welcomed a total of 3,534 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Marion County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five students.

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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Glasscock Elementary School	0.4%	508
Marion County Knight Academy	0.5%	578
Marion County Middle School	1.1%	460
Lebanon Elementary School	1%	399
Marion County High School	0.7%	721