North Kentucky News

There were 1,487 white students enrolled in Bracken County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.1% decrease from the 1,535 white 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, white students comprised 95% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Bracken County, Taylor Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 548 students, making up 96.1% 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
Augusta Independent School	93.4%	332
Bracken County High School	93.7%	383
Taylor Elementary School	96.1%	570
Bracken County Middle School	96.4%	280