KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education
KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education
Data showed that Jackson County welcomed a total of 2,324 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 97.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the eight schools in Jackson County, Jackson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 588 students, making up 98.2% 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.
| School name | % of White Students Enrolment | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson County High School | 98.2% | 599 |
| Jackson County Middle School | 96.6% | 447 |
| Barnabus Home Middle School | 66.7% | 6 |
| Barnabus Home High School | 96.2% | 26 |
| Jackson County Schools Learning Center | 100% | 26 |
| McKee Elementary School | 95.6% | 428 |
| Sand Gap Elementary School | 95.8% | 284 |
| Tyner Elementary School | 98.4% | 508 |
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