North Bluegrass News

There were 966 African American students enrolled in Franklin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.3% decrease from the 969 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Franklin County welcomed a total of 8,213 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 11.8% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Franklin County, Franklin County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 134 students, making up 12.9% 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
Frankfort Early Learning Academy	16.7%	72
Second Street School	16.8%	618
Frankfort High School	16.7%	342
Panther Transition Academy	18.4%	38
The Academy	23.5%	149
Westridge Elementary School	4.4%	409
Bridgeport Elementary School	5.2%	440
Bondurant Middle School	6.2%	699
Early Learning Village	17%	424
Collins Lane	5.8%	555
Elkhorn Middle School	13.3%	797
Elkhorn Elementary School	16.1%	435
Franklin County High School	12.9%	1,041
Hearn Elementary School	11.8%	434
Peaks Mill Elementary School	7.5%	442
Western Hills High School	4.5%	887
William Cofield High School	7.8%	141
Future Forward Education & Career Center	40.7%	290