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 Mercer County welcomed a total of 3,497 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.9% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the seven schools in Mercer County, Kenneth D. King Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of nine students, making up 1.4% 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 Asian Students Enrolment | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Burgin Independent School | 0.4% | 542 |
| Mercer County Senior High School | 1% | 762 |
| Kenneth D. King Middle School | 1.4% | 657 |
| Mercer County Intermediate School | 1% | 625 |
| Mercer County Elementary School | 0.6% | 809 |
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