North Bluegrass News

There were 733 African American students enrolled in Scott County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 12.3% increase from the 653 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Scott County welcomed a total of 10,623 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 6.9% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Scott County, Great Crossing High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 121 students, making up 6.5% 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
Phoenix Horizon Community	10.7%	169
Eastern Elementary School	3.3%	484
Anne Mason Elementary School	11%	444
Royal Spring Middle School	7.8%	771
Lemons Mill Elementary School	8.1%	544
Garth Elementary School	12.3%	406
Georgetown Middle School	11.4%	693
Scott County Preschool	8.1%	383
Great Crossing High School	6.5%	1,853
Creekside Elementary School	10.8%	595
Northern Elementary School	2.1%	479
Scott County High School	7.7%	1,281
Stamping Ground Elementary School	0.7%	413
Scott County Middle School	1.4%	898
Southern Elementary School	10.9%	561
Western Elementary School	2.3%	649