East Pennyroyal News

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

There were 1,719 students in Clinton County School District, 0.5% lower than the year before.

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

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.3% of them were boys, and 49.7% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 90.3% of Clinton County School District's total enrollment.

Clinton County School District has a main office in Albany and is the only school district within Clinton 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
Albany Elementary School	489	467	4.7%
Clinton County Middle School	468	484	-3.3%
Clinton County High School	449	428	4.9%
Clinton County Early Childhood Center	264	274	-3.6%
Foothills Academy	50	75	-33.3%