Elizabethtown Times

There were 97 African American students enrolled in Meade County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7.6% decrease from the 105 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Meade County welcomed a total of 5,371 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1.8% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Meade County, Meade County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 26 students, making up 1.6% 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.

School name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
David T. Wilson Elementary School	2.4%	539
Brandenburg High School	4%	25
James R. Allen High School	1%	105
Stuart Pepper Middle School	1.7%	809
Flaherty Primary School	3.3%	479
Ekron Elementary School	2%	394
Flaherty Elementary School	2.5%	285
Barry Hahn Primary School	1.3%	878
Meade County High School	1.6%	1,592