North Bluegrass News

There were 2,775 white students enrolled in Harrison County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.6% decrease from the 2,849 white 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, white students comprised 89.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Harrison County, Harrison County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 828 students, making up 91.1% 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
Eastside Elementary School	89%	444
Harrison County Learning Center	81.6%	49
Southside Elementary School	87.3%	378
Harrison County High School	91.1%	909
Harrison County Middle School	89%	645
Northside Elementary School	90.4%	322
Westside Elementary School	86.8%	365