NE Kentucky News

The majority of students in Greenup County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 6,987 students attending Greenup County schools, 93.3% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 2.2%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Greenup County schools, representing 93.2% of the student body.

McKell Elementary School and Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus B had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 6.1% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Greenup County High School	White	96.3%	866
Russell High School	White	94.6%	691
McKell Elementary School	White	94.6%	569
Raceland-Worthington High School	White	97.1%	482
Greysbranch Elementary School	White	96.5%	400
McKell Middle School	White	97.5%	400
Wurtland Middle School	White	95.5%	359
Argillite Elementary School	White	94.1%	321
Wurtland Elementary School	White	92.1%	280
Raceland-Worthington Middle School	White	198.8%	248
Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus B	White	279%	224
Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus a	White	86.6%	67