Bowling Green Today

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

Of the 2,146 students attending Edmonson County schools, 94.8% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 2.3%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Edmonson County schools, representing 93.4% of the student body.

Edmonson County High School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 5.7% 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
Edmonson County High School	White	95%	596
South Edmonson Elementary School	White	94.5%	549
Kyrock Elementary School	White	95.3%	364
Edmonson County Middle School	White	94.2%	329
Edmonson County 5/6 Center	White	94.8%	308