North Bluegrass News

There were 271 12th grade students enrolled in Bourbon County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.5% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Bourbon County High School welcomed most of the 12th grade students in the county, registering 229 students.

Within Bourbon County schools, the highest student population was found in preschool, with the smallest class sizes seen in kindergarten.

Statewide, Bourbon County ranked 49th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 49th 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 12th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Bourbon County High School	229	25%	917
Paris High School	42	17.9%	234