North Kentucky News

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

Of the 5,128 students attending Grant County schools, 91.5% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 4.5%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Grant County schools, representing 90.2% of the student body.

Dry Ridge 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 10.1% 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
Grant County High School	White	92.9%	1,148
Grant County Middle School	White	92%	923
Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary School	White	91.3%	618
Sherman Elementary School	White	84.1%	536
Dry Ridge Elementary School	White	89.8%	529
Mason-Corinth Elementary School	White	97.2%	393
Williamstown Elementary School	White	92.6%	376