North Bluegrass News

There were 146 Asian students enrolled in Franklin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.8% decrease from the 155 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 1.8% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Franklin County, Bridgeport Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 30 students, making up 6.8% 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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Second Street School	0.5%	618
Westridge Elementary School	2.7%	409
Bridgeport Elementary School	6.8%	440
Bondurant Middle School	2.3%	699
Early Learning Village	1.7%	424
Collins Lane	1.8%	555
Elkhorn Middle School	1.4%	797
Elkhorn Elementary School	1.1%	435
Franklin County High School	1.2%	1,041
Hearn Elementary School	0.9%	434
Peaks Mill Elementary School	1.1%	442
Western Hills High School	3%	887
William Cofield High School	1.4%	141
Future Forward Education & Career Center	0.7%	290