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Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 7.1% of Boyle County’s districts student body in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 363 Hispanic students enrolled in Boyle County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 4.1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hispanic students made up 7.1% of the 5,128 students in Boyle County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the third most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the three school districts in Boyle County, Boyle County School District recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 99 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Boyle 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.

Enrollment Demographics in Boyle County Districts During 2022-23 School Year
District% of hispanic students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Danville Independent School District122,165
Kentucky School for the Deaf4.9102
Boyle County School District3.52,861

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