North Kentucky News

There were 18 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Kenton County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.3% decrease from the 19 American Indian or Alaska Native 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 33 schools in Kenton County, three schools recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two students.

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
Beechwood High School	0.1%	743
Guardian Angel	2.4%	42
Transformational Learning Center	0.7%	140
Holmes High School	0.1%	1,002
John G. Carlisle Elementary School	0.3%	343
Early Learning Center	2.6%	38
Miles Elementary School	0.4%	255
River Ridge Elementary School	0.1%	1,023
Dixie Heights High School	0.1%	1,617
Simon Kenton High School	0.1%	1,934
Turkey Foot Middle School	0.1%	1,081
Twenhofel Middle School	0.1%	870
Woodland Middle School	0.2%	648
Scott High School	0.2%	1,107
Ludlow High School	0.3%	387