NE Kentucky News

There were 122 African American students enrolled in Greenup County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 6.2% decrease from the 130 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Greenup County welcomed a total of 6,510 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1.9% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Greenup County, Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus B recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 58 students, making up 29.3% 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.

School name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Argillite Elementary School	0.4%	226
Wurtland Middle School	2.2%	276
Greenup County High School	0.8%	902
McKell Elementary School	0.2%	511
McKell Middle School	1%	384
Wurtland Elementary School	2.2%	227
Campbell Elementary School	0.3%	360
Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus B	29.3%	198
Raceland-Worthington High School	1.2%	322
Raceland-Worthington Middle School	0.4%	477
Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus a	2.5%	40
Russell Primary School	1.1%	523
Russell-McDowell Intermediate School	1.9%	478
Russell High School	1%	696
Russell Middle School	1.8%	544