NE Kentucky News

There were 6,017 white students enrolled in Greenup County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.5% decrease from the 6,174 white 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, white students comprised 92.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Greenup County, Greenup County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 864 students, making up 95.8% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Argillite Elementary School	93.8%	226
Wurtland Middle School	94.2%	276
Greenup County High School	95.8%	902
Greysbranch Elementary School	96.6%	322
McKell Elementary School	94.1%	511
McKell Middle School	95.6%	384
Wurtland Elementary School	90.3%	227
Campbell Elementary School	93.6%	360
Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus B	56.6%	198
Raceland-Worthington High School	95.3%	322
Raceland-Worthington Middle School	95.4%	477
Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus a	87.5%	40
Russell Primary School	91.2%	523
Russell-McDowell Intermediate School	92.3%	478
Russell High School	90.7%	696
Russell Middle School	91.5%	544
Russell Independent Alternative School	100%	24