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 Anderson County welcomed a total of 3,944 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 2% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the six schools in Anderson County, Anderson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 22 students, making up 1.8% of the school's total student body.
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 name | % of African American Students Enrolment | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson County High School | 1.8% | 1,229 |
| Robert B. Turner Elementary School | 1.1% | 557 |
| Anderson County Middle School | 2.3% | 854 |
| Saffell Street Elementary School | 1.6% | 428 |
| Emma B. Ward Elementary School | 2.9% | 484 |
| Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Center | 2% | 392 |
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