Bowling Green Today

The majority of students in Butler County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 2,410 students attending Butler County schools, 88.8% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Butler County schools, representing 85.5% of the student body.

Morgantown Elementary School had the most even distribution of races among county schools, which included 82.2% white students, 15.6% Hispanic or Latino students, 1.8% multiracial students, 0.3% Asian students, and 0.1% African American students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 4% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Morgantown Elementary School	White	82.2%	718
Butler County High School	White	90.2%	684
Butler County Middle School	White	89%	507
North Butler Elementary School	White	96.4%	450
Butler County Learning Center	White	96.1%	51