SW Bluegrass News

There were 202 Multiracial students enrolled in Mercer County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 5.4% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Multiracial students made up 5.6% of the 3,618 students in Mercer County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the second 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 Multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 22 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 multiracial students enrolment	Total enrollment
Mercer County School District	5.9	3,039
Burgin Independent School District	3.8	579