North Bluegrass News

There were 5,587 white students enrolled in Franklin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.6% decrease from the 5,679 white 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, white students comprised 68% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Franklin County, Franklin County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 692 students, making up 66.5% 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
Frankfort Early Learning Academy	65.3%	72
Second Street School	65.9%	618
Frankfort High School	70.5%	342
Panther Transition Academy	55.3%	38
The Academy	64.4%	149
Westridge Elementary School	83.1%	409
Bridgeport Elementary School	72%	440
Bondurant Middle School	76.8%	699
Early Learning Village	60.1%	424
Collins Lane	67.4%	555
Elkhorn Middle School	64.2%	797
Elkhorn Elementary School	57.7%	435
Franklin County High School	66.5%	1,041
Hearn Elementary School	63.6%	434
Peaks Mill Elementary School	75.3%	442
Western Hills High School	76.1%	887
William Cofield High School	67.4%	141
Future Forward Education & Career Center	40.7%	290