North Bluegrass News

There were 893 ninth grade students enrolled in Franklin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.2% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Franklin County High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 342 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 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Franklin County High School	342	32.9%	1,041
Western Hills High School	272	30.7%	887
Frankfort High School	110	32.2%	342
Future Forward Education & Career Center	92	31.7%	290
The Academy	55	36.9%	149
William Cofield High School	18	12.8%	141
Panther Transition Academy	4	10.5%	38