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Enrollment Analysis: Asian students comprised less than 0.1% of Knox County’s districts student body 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 14 Asian students enrolled in Knox County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 16.7% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Asian students made up less than 0.1% of the 5,726 students in Knox County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the third least represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the two school districts in Knox County, Barbourville Independent School District recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of three students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Knox 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 Knox County Districts During 2022-23 School Year
District% of asian students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Knox County School District< 0.14,985
Barbourville Independent School District< 0.1741

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