NE Kentucky News

There were 271 sixth grade students enrolled in Rowan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 11.1% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Rowan County Middle School welcomed most of the sixth grade students in the county, registering 265 students.

Within Rowan County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Rowan County ranked 52nd in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 52nd the year before.

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	# of 6th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Rowan County Middle School	265	33%	803
Bluegrass Discovery Academy Middle	4	13.8%	29
Morehead Youth Development Center	2	2.2%	90