Enrollment Analysis: African American students comprised 5.1% of Campbell County's student body in 2022-23 school year

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

By North Kentucky News

Jul 12, 2024

There were 632 African American students enrolled in Campbell County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 6.8% increase from the 592 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Campbell County welcomed a total of 12,375 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 5.1% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 14 schools in Campbell County, Newport High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 132 students, making up 20.7% 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.

Ethnicities in Campbell County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Campbell County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Bellevue High School	6.2%	384
Grandview Elementary School	5.4%	298
Campbell County Middle School	2.4%	1,236
John W. Reiley Elementary School	1.5%	521
Donald E. Cline Elementary School	2.3%	388
Alexandria Educational Center	9.4%	96
Campbell Ridge Elementary School	0.9%	640
Crossroads Elementary School	1.8%	683
Grant's Lick Elementary School	2.1%	378
Campbell County High School	2.3%	1,625
Dayton High School	2.3%	393
Lincoln Elementary School	3.4%	531
Highlands High School	1.2%	1,029
Highlands Middle School	1.5%	746
Johnson Elementary School	0.9%	430
Moyer Elementary School	1.9%	569
Woodfill Elementary School	1%	420
Newport Regional School	28%	236
Newport Primary School	16%	412
Newport School of Innovation	14.3%	63
Newport Intermediate School	18.2%	424
Newport High School	20.7%	639
Southgate Public School	23.1%	234