SW Bluegrass News

There were 3,478 white students enrolled in Anderson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.1% decrease from the 3,517 white 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, white students comprised 88.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Anderson County, Anderson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,093 students, making up 88.9% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Anderson County High School	88.9%	1,229
Robert B. Turner Elementary School	93%	557
Anderson County Middle School	86.4%	854
Saffell Street Elementary School	83.9%	428
Emma B. Ward Elementary School	88.8%	484
Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Center	86.7%	392