SW Bluegrass News

There were 3,097 white students enrolled in Woodford County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.8% increase from the 3,072 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Woodford County welcomed a total of 4,299 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 72% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Woodford County, Woodford County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 997 students, making up 73.6% 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
Safe Harbor Academy	83%	47
Southside Elementary School	81.2%	624
Simmons Elementary School	52.8%	451
Woodford County High School	73.6%	1,355
Woodford County Middle School	71.7%	933
Huntertown Elementary School	73.3%	483
Northside Elementary School	72.2%	406