East Pennyroyal News

There were 2,766 white students enrolled in Marion County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.9% decrease from the 2,878 white 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, white students comprised 78.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Marion County, Marion County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 587 students, making up 81.4% 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
Calvary Elementary School	87.6%	250
Hugh C. Spalding Academy	82.9%	187
Glasscock Elementary School	68.9%	508
Marion County Knight Academy	79.2%	578
Marion County Middle School	75.7%	460
West Marion Elementary School	92.6%	431
Lebanon Elementary School	62.7%	399
Marion County High School	81.4%	721