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There were 34 multiracial students enrolled in Owen County schools in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 34 multiracial students enrolled in Owen County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 13.3% increase from the 30 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Owen County welcomed a total of 1,840 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 1.8% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the three schools in Owen County, Owen County Elementary/Primary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 15 students, making up 2% 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.

Ethnicities in Owen County in 2022-23 School Year
White [91.6%]Hispanic or Latino [5.5%]Ethnicities with <5% [2.8%]

Enrollment in Owen County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Owen County Elementary/Primary School2%741
Maurice Bowling Middle School1.6%512
Owen County High School1.9%587

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