NE Kentucky News

There were 3,522 white students enrolled in Rowan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.2% increase from the 3,446 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Rowan County welcomed a total of 3,887 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 90.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Rowan County, Rowan County Senior High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,022 students, making up 91.7% 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
Clearfield Elementary School	91.1%	336
McBrayer Elementary School	91.3%	599
Rowan County Preschool Center	92.3%	208
Morehead Youth Development Center	50%	90
Bluegrass Discovery Academy High School	89.7%	39
Bluegrass Discovery Academy Middle	93.1%	29
Rowan County Senior High School	91.7%	1,115
Tilden Hogge Elementary School	90.7%	237
Rowan County Middle School	91.4%	803
Rodburn Elementary School	92.6%	431