East Louisville News

There were 21 African American students enrolled in Carroll County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 19.2% decrease from the 26 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Carroll County welcomed a total of 2,157 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Carroll County, Carroll County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of nine 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.

School name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Cartmell Elementary School	0.9%	440
Carroll County Childhood Development Center	0.6%	167
Kathryn Winn Primary School	0.7%	307
Carroll County High School	1.5%	611
Carroll County Middle School	0.8%	632