KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education
KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education
Data showed that Hispanic students made up 5.6% of the 3,618 students in Mercer County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the third most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.
Among the two school districts in Mercer County, Burgin Independent School District recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 15 students.
The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Mercer 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.
| District | % of hispanic students enrolment | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Mercer County School District | 6.2 | 3,039 |
| Burgin Independent School District | 2.6 | 579 |
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