North Kentucky News

There were six American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Gallatin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 50% increase from the four American Indian or Alaska Native students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Gallatin County welcomed a total of 1,648 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be one of the least represented ethnicities in the county.

Among the four schools in Gallatin County, Gallatin County Lower Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of three students, making up 0.6% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Gallatin County Middle School	0.3%	351
Gallatin County Upper Elementary School	0.6%	314
Gallatin County Lower Elementary School	0.6%	463