North Kentucky News

There were 17 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Boone County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 21.4% increase from the 14 American Indian or Alaska Native students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Boone County welcomed a total of 23,956 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 27 schools in Boone County, Larry A. Ryle High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four students, making up 0.2% 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 American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Erpenbeck Elementary School	0.1%	746
North Pointe Elementary School	0.4%	449
Camp Ernst Middle School	0.3%	769
Randall K. Cooper High School	0.1%	1,512
Longbranch Elementary School	0.1%	914
Steeplechase Elementary School	0.2%	612
Hillard Collins Elementary School	0.2%	558
Larry A. Ryle High School	0.2%	2,108
Walton-Verona Elementary School	0.3%	751
Walton-Verona Middle School	0.2%	562