North Kentucky News

There were 39 multiracial students enrolled in Bracken County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.5% decrease from the 40 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Bracken County welcomed a total of 1,565 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 2.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Bracken County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 11 students.

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
Augusta Independent School	2.7%	332
Bracken County High School	2.9%	383
Taylor Elementary School	1.9%	570
Bracken County Middle School	2.9%	280