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There were 1,685 white 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 1,685 white students enrolled in Owen County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.2% decrease from the 1,740 white 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, white students comprised 91.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the three schools in Owen County, Owen County Elementary/Primary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 684 students, making up 92.3% 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 White Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Owen County Elementary/Primary School92.3%741
Maurice Bowling Middle School92%512
Owen County High School90.3%587

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