SW Bluegrass News

There were 59 African American students enrolled in Lincoln County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7.8% decrease from the 64 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lincoln County welcomed a total of 3,645 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1.6% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Lincoln County, Lincoln County Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 21 students, making up 2.6% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Highland Elementary School	0.9%	227
Lincoln County Middle School	2.6%	793
Hustonville Elementary School	1.5%	478
Lincoln County High School	1.8%	1,000
Stanford Elementary School	1.8%	617