North Bluegrass News

There were 574 11th grade students enrolled in Franklin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.4% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Franklin County High School welcomed most of the 11th grade students in the county, registering 206 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 11th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Franklin County High School	206	19.8%	1,041
Western Hills High School	197	22.2%	887
Frankfort High School	79	23.1%	342
Future Forward Education & Career Center	55	19%	290
The Academy	18	12.1%	149
William Cofield High School	10	7.1%	141
Panther Transition Academy	9	23.7%	38