Enrollment Analysis: Asian students comprised 2.4% of Boone 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 20, 2024

There were 578 Asian students enrolled in Boone County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 9.3% increase from the 529 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 2.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 27 schools in Boone County, Erpenbeck Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 79 students, making up 10.6% 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 Boone County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Boone County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
A. M. Yealey Elementary School	4.8%	665
Erpenbeck Elementary School	10.6%	746
North Pointe Elementary School	2.4%	449
Camp Ernst Middle School	0.7%	769
Shirley Mann Elementary School	7.6%	740
Thornwilde Elementary School	1%	672
Randall K. Cooper High School	1.4%	1,512
Longbranch Elementary School	2.5%	914
Steeplechase Elementary School	2.5%	612
Rector A. Jones Middle School	1.2%	774
Ballyshannon Middle School	1.1%	651
Boone County High School	1.7%	1,417
Burlington Elementary School	1.2%	743
Conner Middle School	2%	927
Conner High School	2.2%	1,526
Florence Elementary School	0.9%	650
Chester Goodridge Elementary School	1.5%	688
Hillard Collins Elementary School	0.9%	558
Larry A. Ryle High School	2.6%	2,108
Gray Middle School	3.4%	1,057
New Haven Elementary School	3.9%	735
Ockerman Elementary School	2.5%	865
Stephens Elementary School	2.3%	649
Ockerman Middle School	4.2%	713
ACCEL Academy	0.8%	372
Walton-Verona Elementary School	0.8%	751
Walton-Verona Middle School	0.5%	562
Walton-Verona High School	1.4%	576
Walton - Verona Early Childhood Center	1%	105