East Pennyroyal News

There were 212 African American students enrolled in Adair County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 133% increase from the 91 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Adair County welcomed a total of 3,126 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 6.8% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Adair County, Adair Learning Academy recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 154 students, making up 50.5% 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
Adair County High School	2%	865
Adair Learning Academy	50.5%	305
Adair County Middle School	2.5%	652
Adair County Elementary School	1.9%	593
Adair County Primary Center	2%	711