Bowling Green Today

There were 3,502 African American students enrolled in Warren County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 8.6% increase from the 3,224 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Warren County welcomed a total of 26,435 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 13.2% of the student body to be one of the most represented ethnicities in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Warren County, Bowling Green High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 295 students, making up 21.1% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Dishman McGinnis Elementary School	24.8%	495
Childrens Crisis Stabilization Unit	5.6%	213
Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center	29.2%	209
Parker-Bennett-Curry School	34%	476
Potter Gray Elementary School	6.7%	435
Bowling Green Junior High School	22.6%	1,060
Bowling Green High School	21.1%	1,396
T. C. Cherry Elementary School	23.9%	523
W. R. McNeill Elementary School	18.8%	468
Bowling Green Learning Center	21.5%	186
South Warren Middle School	6.5%	814
South Warren High School	5.4%	1,563
Alvaton Elementary School	6.1%	817
Briarwood Elementary School	15.5%	806
Lighthouse Academy	11.5%	192
Plano Elementary School	4.4%	756
Beacon Academy	5.6%	249
Jennings Creek Elementary School	19.1%	875
Jody Richards Elementary School	5.2%	804
Bristow Elementary School	12.2%	721
Cumberland Trace Elementary School	7.4%	693
Drakes Creek Middle School	6.6%	784
Lost River Elementary School	14.8%	919
Jackson Academy	20.6%	63
William H. Natcher Elementary School	7.1%	751
North Warren Elementary School	4.3%	488
Oakland Elementary School	18.5%	455
Rich Pond Elementary School	3.7%	923
Richardsville Elementary School	1.1%	523
Rockfield Elementary School	6.7%	668
Henry F. Moss Middle School	26.6%	632
Warren Elementary School	34.9%	832
Warren East Middle School	10.7%	522
Warren Central High School	24.7%	1,173
Warren East High School	10.7%	1,120
Greenwood High School	7%	1,461
Geo International High School	34.7%	176
Rivendell Elementary School	5.7%	632
Rivendell High School	4.6%	517
Warren County Day Treatment	13.3%	45