Bowling Green Today

There were 281 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Butler County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7.7% increase from the 261 Hispanic or Latino students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Butler County welcomed a total of 2,347 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 12% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Butler County, Morgantown Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 128 students, making up 17.8% 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
Butler County High School	11.5%	668
North Butler Elementary School	3.5%	429
Butler County Learning Center	8.9%	45
Butler County Middle School	11.8%	484
Morgantown Elementary School	17.8%	721