Snapshot, Pulaski County, Kentucky 2022 | Page 28

Kentucky Education Facts

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Pulaski Early Child Enrollment
Preschool
3 - and 4-year olds with disabilities
At-risk 4-year-olds at or below 160 % of the federal poverty level ( FPL )
Other
Head Start
3- and 4-year-olds with disabilities
3-4-year-olds income eligible
Other
77.4 %
43.5 %
54.5 %
2.1 %
21.1 %
1 .%%
Published March 2022
Number of public-school students – 647,987 ( 2019-2020 )
Ethnicity of public-school students
White ( Non-Hispanic )– 487,725 ( 75.3 %) African American – 68,799 ( 10.6 %) Hispanic – 49,201 ( 7.6 %) Asian – 12,235 Hawaiian / Pacific Islander – 893 Native American – 811 ( SRC calls this demographic American Indian OR Alaska Native ) Two or More Races – 28,321
Pre-kindergarten ( preschool ) children enrolled in state-funded programs – 21,351
Source : KDE 2019-2020 Fall / Spring Counts
Number of students enrolled in Head Start programs – 15,733
Source : Kentucky Center for Statistics
Number of exceptional children ages 3-5 2019-2020:18,564 2018-2019 : 18,232 2017-2018 : 18,070
Number of exceptional children ages 6-21 2019-2020 : 90,041 2018-2019 : 87,927 2017-2018 : 86,200
Students qualifying for Gifted & Talented services 2019-2020 Primary Talent Pool ( K-3 ): 27,408 Formal ID ( grades 4-12 ): 68,882
Percent of individuals eligible for free or reduced-price meals in public schools – K-12 students reported to KDE as of the last day of enrollment in the school year ) – 60.8 %
Student Transitions – College - 49.9 % Technical Training - 4.7 % Military - 2.9 % Working – 21 % Work-School Combination – 8.1 % Other - 13.2 %
Kentucky Education Facts
Students receiving immigrant services – 7,691 Number of students served by FRYSCs – 637,724 ( this is the total enrollment of schools served by FRYSC , including preschool and Head Start students located in school served by FRYSC )
Number of students served in Extended School Services programs during the school year – 102484 Students receiving English Language Services – 34,816 Languages , other than English , spoken at home by English Language Services students – Total unique languages – 125 Total Students Home Language Spanish – 20,767 Total Students Home Language Arabic – 1,624 Total Students Home Language Somali – 968 Total Students Home Language Swahili – 1,866 Total Students Home Language Nepali – 785 Total Students Home Language Japanese – 403 Total Students Home Language Other – 8,403
Students to modern high-performance computers ratio – 0.78:1 ( One computer to every . 78 students ) Students with internet access beyond the school campus – 98 % Number of homeschooled students – 23,008
State dropout rate – 7th – 12th grade Dropout Rate 2018-2019 : 1.3 2017-2018 : 1.4 2016-2017 : 1.3 9th – 12th grade Dropout Rate 2018-2019 : 1.8 2017-2018 : 2.0 2016-2017 : 1.9
State retention rate – 1.3 % grades 4-12 State attendance rate ( 2018-2019 ) – 94.2 % ( 2018-2019 is the most recent data . 2019-2020 data is not available due to COVID-19 )
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