Bowling Green Today

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

There were 1,989 students in Edmonson County School District, 1.9% lower than the year before.

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

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.5% of them were boys, and 49.5% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 92.6% of Edmonson County School District's total enrollment.

Edmonson County School District has a main office in Brownsville and is the only school district within Edmonson 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
Edmonson County High School	616	636	-3.1%
South Edmonson Elementary School	492	505	-2.6%
Kyrock Elementary School	331	324	2.2%
Edmonson County Middle School	293	305	-3.9%
Edmonson County 5/6 Center	264	260	1.5%