North Kentucky News

There were 1,404 white students enrolled in Gallatin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.6% decrease from the 1,427 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Gallatin County welcomed a total of 1,648 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 85.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Gallatin County, Gallatin County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 447 students, making up 86% 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
Gallatin County Middle School	84%	351
Gallatin County Upper Elementary School	85%	314
Gallatin County Lower Elementary School	85.3%	463
Gallatin County High School	86%	520