SW Bluegrass News

There were 269 kindergarten students enrolled in Anderson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.5% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Center welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 180 students.

Within Anderson County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Anderson County ranked 50th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 50th the year before.

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	# of Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Center	180	45.9%	392
Robert B. Turner Elementary School	89	16%	557