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Enrollment in Owen County School District decreased from previous year

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​Robbie Fletcher, E​d.D.​Kentucky Commissioner of education | https://www.education.ky.gov/CommOfEd/Pages/KDE-Leadership-Team.aspx

​Robbie Fletcher, E​d.D.​Kentucky Commissioner of education | https://www.education.ky.gov/CommOfEd/Pages/KDE-Leadership-Team.aspx

The only school district in Owen County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 1,840 students in Owen County School District, 2.9% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Owen County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 51.1% of them were boys, and 48.9% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 91.6% of Owen County School District's total enrollment.

Owen County School District has a main office in Owenton and is the only school district within Owen County.

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.

Enrollment in Owen County Over 4 Years
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Enrollment in Owen County School District Schools During 2022-23 School Year
SchoolTotal Enrollment in 2022-23Total Enrollment in 2021-22Total % Change
Owen County Elementary/Primary School7417232.5%
Owen County High School587615-4.6%
Maurice Bowling Middle School512557-8.1%