North Bluegrass News

There were nine Asian students enrolled in Bourbon County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 28.6% increase from the seven Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Bourbon County welcomed a total of 3,862 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Bourbon County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of three students.

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
Bourbon Central Elementary School	0.6%	518
Cane Ridge Elementary School	0.2%	502
Bourbon County High School	0.3%	917
Bourbon County Middle School	0.1%	697
Paris Elementary School	0.3%	338