North Kentucky News

There were 1,711 first grade students enrolled in Boone County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Walton-Verona Elementary School welcomed most of the first grade students in the county, registering 151 students.

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

Statewide, Boone County ranked fifth in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked fifth 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 1st Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Walton-Verona Elementary School	151	20.1%	751
Ockerman Elementary School	150	17.3%	865
Longbranch Elementary School	149	16.3%	914
New Haven Elementary School	117	15.9%	735
Chester Goodridge Elementary School	113	16.4%	688
Thornwilde Elementary School	110	16.4%	672
Burlington Elementary School	109	14.7%	743
Shirley Mann Elementary School	108	14.6%	740
Stephens Elementary School	106	16.3%	649
Hillard Collins Elementary School	103	18.5%	558
A. M. Yealey Elementary School	100	15%	665
Erpenbeck Elementary School	100	13.4%	746
Steeplechase Elementary School	100	16.3%	612
Florence Elementary School	99	15.2%	650
North Pointe Elementary School	52	11.6%	449
Charles H. Kelly Elementary School	44	17.7%	248