North Kentucky News

There were 307 Asian students enrolled in Kenton County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 10.8% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Asian students made up 1.2% of the 25,106 students in Kenton County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the third least represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the five school districts in Kenton County, Beechwood Independent School District recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 37 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Kenton County.

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.

District	% of asian students enrolment	Total enrollment
Beechwood Independent School District	2.5	1,485
Kenton County School District	1.6	15,319
Ludlow Independent School District	< 0.1	891
Erlanger-Elsmere Independent School District	< 0.1	2,791
Covington Independent School District	< 0.1	4,620