Bowling Green Today

There were 176 first grade students enrolled in Butler County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 10% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Morgantown Elementary School welcomed most of the first grade students in the county, registering 118 students.

Within Butler County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Butler County ranked 81st in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 81st the year before.

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	# of 1st Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Morgantown Elementary School	118	16.4%	721
North Butler Elementary School	58	13.5%	429