North Kentucky News

There were 1,138 ninth grade students enrolled in Campbell County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 13.8% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Campbell County High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 455 students.

Within Campbell County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Campbell County ranked 11th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 11th the year before.

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	# of 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Campbell County High School	455	28%	1,625
Highlands High School	298	29%	1,029
Newport High School	127	19.9%	639
Bellevue High School	77	20.1%	384
Newport Regional School	74	31.4%	236
Dayton High School	67	17%	393
Alexandria Educational Center	26	27.1%	96
Newport School of Innovation	14	22.2%	63