SW Bluegrass News

There were 157 multiracial students enrolled in Anderson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.3% decrease from the 159 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Anderson County welcomed a total of 3,944 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 4% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Anderson County, Anderson County Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 43 students, making up 5% 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 Multiracial Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Anderson County High School	3.2%	1,229
Robert B. Turner Elementary School	2.3%	557
Anderson County Middle School	5%	854
Saffell Street Elementary School	5.6%	428
Emma B. Ward Elementary School	3.1%	484
Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Center	5.9%	392