North Kentucky News

There were 17,321 white students enrolled in Kenton County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.9% decrease from the 17,661 white 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, white students comprised 71.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 33 schools in Kenton County, Simon Kenton High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,711 students, making up 88.5% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Beechwood Elementary School	85.2%	768
Beechwood High School	85.1%	743
Guardian Angel	61.9%	42
Biggs Early Childhood Education Center	34%	391
Covington Adult High School	50%	24
Transformational Learning Center	49.3%	140
Holmes Middle School	35.7%	712
Holmes High School	35.3%	1,002
John G. Carlisle Elementary School	23%	343
Latonia Elementary School	60.6%	315
Ninth District Elementary School	31.1%	376
Glenn O. Swing Elementary School	36.4%	440
Sixth District Elementary School	28%	493
Lindeman Elementary School	54.2%	321
Arnett Elementary School	64.2%	316
Howell Elementary School	55.4%	327
Early Learning Center	57.9%	38
Lloyd High School	65.6%	738
Miles Elementary School	71.4%	255
Tichenor Middle School	60.9%	594
Bartlett Educational Center	61.1%	108
Beechgrove Elementary School	77.1%	707
River Ridge Elementary School	62.8%	1,023
James A. Caywood Elementary School	65.6%	584
Dixie Heights High School	75.5%	1,617
R. C. Hinsdale Elementary School	87%	575
Kenton Elementary School	89.7%	677
Northern Kentucky Youth Development Center	75%	20
Ft Wright Elementary School	69.5%	512
Piner Elementary School	93.6%	330
Ryland Heights Elementary School	88.2%	474
Simon Kenton High School	88.5%	1,934
Taylor Mill Elementary School	86.8%	531
Turkey Foot Middle School	73.2%	1,081
Twenhofel Middle School	90.6%	870
Woodland Middle School	82.7%	648
Scott High School	84%	1,107
Summit View Academy	85.4%	1,508
White's Tower Elementary School	88.9%	666
Mary A. Goetz Elementary School	83.2%	487
Ludlow High School	85.3%	387