SW Bluegrass News

There were 72 African American students enrolled in Garrard County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7.7% decrease from the 78 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Garrard County welcomed a total of 2,829 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 2.5% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Garrard County, Garrard County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 34 students, making up 4% 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
Camp Dick Robinson Elementary School	0.6%	506
Garrard County High School	4%	860
Garrard Middle School	2.2%	595
Paint Lick Elementary School	0.9%	343
Lancaster Elementary School	3.6%	525