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Enrollment Analysis: Asian students comprised 0.3% of Perry County's 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 16 Asian students enrolled in Perry County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 23.8% decrease from the 21 Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Perry County welcomed a total of 5,168 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Perry County, East Perry County Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six students, making up 0.8% of the school's total student body.

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.

Ethnicities in Perry County in 2022-23 School Year
White [94.3%]Ethnicities with <5% [5.6%]

Enrollment in Perry County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Asian Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Hazard High School0.3%316
Hazard Middle School0.9%316
Roy G. Eversole Elementary School0.4%483
East Perry County Elementary School0.8%715
Perry County Central High School0.2%932
Robinson Elementary School0.3%295
Viper Elementary School0.4%259

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