North Kentucky News

There were 115 fourth grade students enrolled in Gallatin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 7.5% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Gallatin County Upper Elementary School is the only school in the county that welcomed fourth grade students.

Within Gallatin County schools, the highest student population was found in 11th grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in third grade.

Statewide, Gallatin County ranked 101st in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 101st 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 4th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Gallatin County Upper Elementary School	115	36.6%	314