North Kentucky News

There were 38 African American students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 18.8% increase from the 32 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Grant County welcomed a total of 4,653 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.8% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Grant County, Grant County Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 students, making up 1.4% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Sherman Elementary School	0.4%	476
Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary School	1.3%	463
Dry Ridge Elementary School	1.5%	464
Grant County High School	0.8%	1,158
Grant County Middle School	1.4%	846
Williamstown Senior High School	0.8%	237