NE Kentucky News

There were 224 seventh grade students enrolled in Lawrence County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.3% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Louisa Middle School welcomed most of the seventh grade students in the county, registering 174 students.

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

Statewide, Lawrence County ranked 70th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 70th 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 7th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Louisa Middle School	174	35.7%	487
Fallsburg Elementary School	31	11.9%	260
Blaine Elementary School	19	10.1%	188