North Kentucky News

There were 1,917 African American students enrolled in Kenton County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.6% increase from the 1,886 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Kenton County welcomed a total of 24,224 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 7.9% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 33 schools in Kenton County, Holmes High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 241 students, making up 24.1% 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
Beechwood Elementary School	1.7%	768
Beechwood High School	1.1%	743
Guardian Angel	4.8%	42
Biggs Early Childhood Education Center	19.7%	391
Covington Adult High School	25%	24
Transformational Learning Center	35.7%	140
Holmes Middle School	29.4%	712
Holmes High School	24.1%	1,002
John G. Carlisle Elementary School	23.3%	343
Latonia Elementary School	21.6%	315
Ninth District Elementary School	35.9%	376
Glenn O. Swing Elementary School	23.6%	440
Sixth District Elementary School	26.8%	493
Lindeman Elementary School	9.3%	321
Arnett Elementary School	9.5%	316
Howell Elementary School	9.8%	327
Early Learning Center	15.8%	38
Lloyd High School	8.9%	738
Miles Elementary School	7.8%	255
Tichenor Middle School	9.6%	594
Bartlett Educational Center	11.1%	108
Beechgrove Elementary School	5.5%	707
River Ridge Elementary School	6.2%	1,023
James A. Caywood Elementary School	3.9%	584
Dixie Heights High School	4.3%	1,617
R. C. Hinsdale Elementary School	2.8%	575
Kenton Elementary School	3.4%	677
Northern Kentucky Youth Development Center	20%	20
Ft Wright Elementary School	7.2%	512
Piner Elementary School	0.6%	330
Ryland Heights Elementary School	1.3%	474
Simon Kenton High School	2.4%	1,934
Taylor Mill Elementary School	2.4%	531
Turkey Foot Middle School	4.1%	1,081
Twenhofel Middle School	2.3%	870
Woodland Middle School	2.6%	648
Scott High School	3.8%	1,107
Summit View Academy	3.1%	1,508
White's Tower Elementary School	2.1%	666
Mary A. Goetz Elementary School	1.4%	487
Ludlow High School	1.8%	387