NE Kentucky News

There were 41 multiracial students enrolled in Lawrence County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 57.7% increase from the 26 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lawrence County welcomed a total of 2,621 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 1.6% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Lawrence County, Lawrence County High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 11 students, making up 1.4% 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 Multiracial Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Louisa East Elementary School	1.9%	514
Louisa West Elementary School	2.6%	390
Blaine Elementary School	1.1%	188
Louisa Middle School	1.6%	487
Lawrence County High School	1.4%	782