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How many Hispanic students were enrolled in Bell County districts in 2022-23 school year?

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 52 Hispanic students enrolled in Bell County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 9.6% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hispanic students made up 1.1% of the 4,877 students in Bell County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the three school districts in Bell County, Bell County School District recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 30 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Bell 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.

Enrollment Demographics in Bell County Districts During 2022-23 School Year
District% of hispanic students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Middlesboro Independent School District1.31,395
Bell County School District1.12,847
Pineville Independent School District< 0.1635

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