North Kentucky News

There were 1,577 fifth grade students enrolled in Boone County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 8.9% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Longbranch Elementary School welcomed most of the fifth grade students in the county, registering 140 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 5th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Longbranch Elementary School	140	15.3%	914
Shirley Mann Elementary School	138	18.6%	740
Walton-Verona Middle School	136	24.2%	562
Ockerman Elementary School	128	14.8%	865
Erpenbeck Elementary School	117	15.7%	746
Burlington Elementary School	113	15.2%	743
New Haven Elementary School	106	14.4%	735
Thornwilde Elementary School	101	15%	672
A. M. Yealey Elementary School	98	14.7%	665
Chester Goodridge Elementary School	90	13.1%	688
Florence Elementary School	89	13.7%	650
Steeplechase Elementary School	82	13.4%	612
Stephens Elementary School	80	12.3%	649
North Pointe Elementary School	72	16%	449
Hillard Collins Elementary School	57	10.2%	558
Charles H. Kelly Elementary School	30	12.1%	248