North Kentucky News

There were 1,744 third grade students enrolled in Boone County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Longbranch Elementary School welcomed most of the third grade students in the county, registering 163 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 3rd Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Longbranch Elementary School	163	17.8%	914
Walton-Verona Elementary School	146	19.4%	751
Ockerman Elementary School	140	16.2%	865
Shirley Mann Elementary School	134	18.1%	740
Erpenbeck Elementary School	128	17.2%	746
Burlington Elementary School	125	16.8%	743
A. M. Yealey Elementary School	115	17.3%	665
Chester Goodridge Elementary School	115	16.7%	688
Florence Elementary School	113	17.4%	650
Steeplechase Elementary School	99	16.2%	612
Stephens Elementary School	98	15.1%	649
Thornwilde Elementary School	96	14.3%	672
New Haven Elementary School	93	12.7%	735
Hillard Collins Elementary School	82	14.7%	558
North Pointe Elementary School	58	12.9%	449
Charles H. Kelly Elementary School	39	15.7%	248