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There were 514 multiracial students enrolled in Shelby County schools 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 514 multiracial students enrolled in Shelby County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 8.2% increase from the 475 multiracial students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Shelby County welcomed a total of 7,505 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 6.8% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Shelby County, Martha Layne Collins High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 76 students, making up 6% 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 Shelby County in 2022-23 School Year
White [59.8%]Hispanic or Latino [26%]Multiracial [6.8%]African American [6.4%]Ethnicities with <5% [0.9%]

Enrollment in Shelby County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Multiracial Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Painted Stone Elementary School10.4%473
Southside Elementary School9.7%464
Martha Layne Collins High School6%1,266
Marnel C. Moorman School7.3%823
Heritage Elementary School5.1%453
Shelby County West Middle School6.6%647
Shelby County High School6.4%1,052
Simpsonville Elementary School5.2%461
Shelby County East Middle School4.9%592
Clear Creek Elementary School10.2%459
Wright Elementary School4.3%489
Northside Early Childhood Center7.8%256
Ascension Academy14.3%70

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