North Bluegrass News

There were 606 seventh grade students enrolled in Franklin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.7% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Elkhorn Middle School welcomed most of the seventh grade students in the county, registering 268 students.

Within Franklin County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Franklin County ranked 21st in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 21st the year before.

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	# of 7th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Elkhorn Middle School	268	33.6%	797
Bondurant Middle School	237	33.9%	699
Second Street School	79	12.8%	618
The Academy	10	6.7%	149
Future Forward Education & Career Center	10	3.4%	290
William Cofield High School	2	1.4%	141