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There were 117 African American students enrolled in Washington County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.7% increase from the 115 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Washington County welcomed a total of 1,906 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 6.1% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Washington County, Washington County Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 50 students, making up 10.3% 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
Commander Academy	9.1%	77
North Washington Elementary School	1.2%	585
Washington County Middle School	9.9%	213
Washington County High School	5.9%	544
Washington County Elementary School	10.3%	487