East Louisville News

There were 372 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Carroll County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.9% decrease from the 383 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 17.2% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Carroll County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 108 students.

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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Cartmell Elementary School	15.9%	440
Carroll County Childhood Development Center	21%	167
Kathryn Winn Primary School	16.6%	307
Carroll County High School	17.7%	611
Carroll County Middle School	17.1%	632