North Kentucky News

There were 1,746 sixth grade students enrolled in Boone County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 5.2% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Gray Middle School welcomed most of the sixth grade students in the county, registering 350 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 6th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Gray Middle School	350	33.1%	1,057
Conner Middle School	324	35%	927
Rector A. Jones Middle School	266	34.4%	774
Ockerman Middle School	242	33.9%	713
Camp Ernst Middle School	238	30.9%	769
Ballyshannon Middle School	182	28%	651
Walton-Verona Middle School	131	23.3%	562
Rise Academy	7	3.5%	202
ACCEL Academy	6	1.6%	372