Bowling Green Today

There were 3,502 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Warren County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 6.8% increase from the 3,280 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino 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 Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 280 students, making up 20.1% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Dishman McGinnis Elementary School	38.6%	495
Childrens Crisis Stabilization Unit	13.6%	213
Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center	5.7%	209
Parker-Bennett-Curry School	32.6%	476
Potter Gray Elementary School	4.6%	435
Bowling Green Junior High School	18.1%	1,060
Bowling Green High School	20.1%	1,396
T. C. Cherry Elementary School	16.6%	523
W. R. McNeill Elementary School	8.1%	468
Bowling Green Learning Center	28%	186
South Warren Middle School	5.9%	814
South Warren High School	5.5%	1,563
Alvaton Elementary School	6.4%	817
Briarwood Elementary School	12.5%	806
Lighthouse Academy	15.1%	192
Plano Elementary School	6.7%	756
Beacon Academy	8%	249
Jennings Creek Elementary School	16.7%	875
Jody Richards Elementary School	7.7%	804
Bristow Elementary School	16.2%	721
Cumberland Trace Elementary School	13.9%	693
Drakes Creek Middle School	8.7%	784
Lost River Elementary School	23.5%	919
Jackson Academy	17.5%	63
William H. Natcher Elementary School	6.4%	751
North Warren Elementary School	5.5%	488
Oakland Elementary School	16.9%	455
Rich Pond Elementary School	6.9%	923
Richardsville Elementary School	5.5%	523
Rockfield Elementary School	6%	668
Henry F. Moss Middle School	20.3%	632
Warren Elementary School	27.6%	832
Warren East Middle School	10.9%	522
Warren Central High School	19.2%	1,173
Warren East High School	10.7%	1,120
Greenwood High School	11.1%	1,461
Geo International High School	39.8%	176
Rivendell Elementary School	5.9%	632
Rivendell High School	5%	517
Warren County Day Treatment	6.7%	45