Elizabethtown Times

There were 4,676 white students enrolled in Meade County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.4% decrease from the 4,740 white 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, white students comprised 87.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Meade County, Meade County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,394 students, making up 87.6% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
David T. Wilson Elementary School	84.2%	539
Brandenburg High School	92%	25
James R. Allen High School	86.7%	105
Stuart Pepper Middle School	86.9%	809
Flaherty Primary School	85.6%	479
Ekron Elementary School	88.6%	394
Flaherty Elementary School	81.8%	285
Barry Hahn Primary School	86.8%	878
Meade County High School	87.6%	1,592
Payneville Elementary School	97%	265