North Bluegrass News

There were 2,735 white students enrolled in Bourbon County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.7% decrease from the 2,899 white 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, white students comprised 70.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Bourbon County, Bourbon County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 680 students, making up 74.2% 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
Bourbon Central Elementary School	68.9%	518
Bourbon County Preschool Headstart	69.7%	241
Cane Ridge Elementary School	84.3%	502
North Middletown Elementary School	84.6%	156
Bourbon County High School	74.2%	917
Bourbon County Middle School	74.2%	697
Paris Elementary School	58%	338
Paris High School	53.8%	234
Paris Middle School	45.9%	170
Paris Preschool Center	65.2%	89