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Lee County Education: 12 multiracial students were enrolled 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 12 multiracial students enrolled in Lee County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lee County welcomed a total of 974 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 1.2% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the two schools in Lee County, Lee County Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven students, making up 1.5% 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.

Enrollment in Lee County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Lee County Middle High School1%499
Lee County Elementary School1.5%475