North Bluegrass News

There were 795 seventh grade students enrolled in Scott County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.9% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Scott County Middle School welcomed most of the seventh grade students in the county, registering 315 students.

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

Statewide, Scott County ranked 15th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 15th 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
Scott County Middle School	315	35.1%	898
Royal Spring Middle School	249	32.3%	771
Georgetown Middle School	225	32.5%	693
Phoenix Horizon Community	6	3.6%	169