North Kentucky News

There were 65 multiracial students enrolled in Pendleton County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 14% increase from the 57 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Pendleton County welcomed a total of 2,431 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 2.7% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the four schools in Pendleton County, Southern Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 18 students, making up 2.9% 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 Multiracial Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Northern Elementary School	3%	531
Phillip Sharp Middle School	2.9%	548
Pendleton County High School	2%	732
Southern Elementary School	2.9%	620