East Pennyroyal News

The only school district in Casey County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 2,363 students in Casey County School District, 0.1% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Casey County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 51.8% of them were boys, and 48.2% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 87.5% of Casey County School District's total enrollment.

Casey County School District has a main office in Liberty and is the only school district within Casey County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Casey County High School	669	665	0.6%
Casey County Middle School	548	550	-0.4%
Liberty Elementary School	430	421	2.1%
Walnut Hill Elementary School	425	421	1%
Jones Park Elementary School	311	332	-6.3%