North Kentucky News

The majority of students in Kenton County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 25,486 students attending Kenton County schools, 76.2% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 8.6%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Kenton County schools, representing 72.5% of the student body.

Beechwood Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 4.7% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Simon Kenton High School	White	92.6%	1,887
Summit View Academy	White	87.2%	1,571
Dixie Heights High School	White	82.4%	1,525
Turkey Foot Middle School	White	80.2%	1,162
River Ridge Elementary School	White	74.6%	1,114
Scott High School	White	88.5%	996
Holmes High School	White	46.7%	911
Holmes Middle School	White	44%	848
Twenhofel Middle School	White	93.2%	824
Beechwood Elementary School	White	85%	752
Woodland Middle School	White	87.2%	742
Lloyd High School	White	66.9%	697
Beechwood High School	White	89.9%	666
Taylor Mill Elementary School	White	85.7%	651
White's Tower Elementary School	White	92.5%	640
R. C. Hinsdale Elementary School	White	88.1%	623
Ryland Heights Elementary School	White	91.7%	590
Tichenor Middle School	White	71.6%	571
Glenn O. Swing Elementary School	White	47.7%	553
Sixth District Elementary School	White	36.9%	483
Latonia Elementary School	White	54.6%	460
Ninth District Elementary School	White	39.2%	451
Arnett Elementary School	White	151.6%	444
Piner Elementary School	White	95.3%	383
John G. Carlisle Elementary School	White	39.3%	382
Lindeman Elementary School	White	60.5%	357
Miles Elementary School	White	201.9%	308
Transformational Learning Center	White	50.3%	171
Bartlett Educational Center	White	71%	124
Guardian Angel	White	83.6%	67
Northern Kentucky Youth Development Center	White	49.2%	65
Covington Adult High School	White	56.7%	60