North Bluegrass News

There were 655 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Bourbon County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.8% increase from the 625 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 17% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Bourbon County, Bourbon County High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 173 students, making up 18.9% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bourbon Central Elementary School	19.1%	518
Bourbon County Preschool Headstart	17.8%	241
Cane Ridge Elementary School	11.4%	502
North Middletown Elementary School	11.5%	156
Bourbon County High School	18.9%	917
Bourbon County Middle School	19.5%	697
Paris Elementary School	13.3%	338
Paris High School	15.4%	234
Paris Middle School	21.2%	170
Paris Preschool Center	13.5%	89