Bowling Green Today

The only school district in Butler County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 2,293 students in Butler County School District, unchanged from the year before.

Enrollment in Butler County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 53.4% of them were boys, and 46.6% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 84.6% of Butler County School District's total enrollment.

Butler County School District has a main office in Morgantown and is the only school district within Butler County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Morgantown Elementary School	721	652	10.6%
Butler County High School	668	700	-4.6%
Butler County Middle School	484	519	-6.7%
North Butler Elementary School	429	416	3.1%
Butler County Learning Center	45	31	45.2%