SW Bluegrass News

There were 165 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Lincoln County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.6% decrease from the 166 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 4.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Lincoln County, Lincoln County Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 44 students, making up 5.5% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Crab Orchard Elementary School	3.4%	323
Highland Elementary School	5.7%	227
Lincoln County Middle School	5.5%	793
Hustonville Elementary School	3.6%	478
Lincoln County High School	4.3%	1,000
Stanford Elementary School	4.9%	617
Waynesburg Elementary School	3.4%	207