Bowling Green Today

There were 1,985 white students enrolled in Butler County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.2% increase from the 1,981 white 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, white students comprised 84.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Butler County, Morgantown Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 573 students, making up 79.5% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Butler County High School	84.4%	668
North Butler Elementary School	93.7%	429
Butler County Learning Center	82.2%	45
Butler County Middle School	84.5%	484
Morgantown Elementary School	79.5%	721