North Bluegrass News

There were 41 African American students enrolled in Harrison County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.1% increase from the 39 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Harrison County welcomed a total of 3,112 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1.3% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Harrison County, Harrison County Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of nine students, making up 1.4% 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
Eastside Elementary School	1.6%	444
Harrison County Learning Center	2%	49
Southside Elementary School	2.1%	378
Harrison County High School	0.8%	909
Harrison County Middle School	1.4%	645
Northside Elementary School	1.2%	322
Westside Elementary School	1.4%	365