North Kentucky News

There were 2,131 ninth grade students enrolled in Boone County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.4% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Larry A. Ryle High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 568 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 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Larry A. Ryle High School	568	26.9%	2,108
Boone County High School	467	33%	1,417
Conner High School	429	28.1%	1,526
Randall K. Cooper High School	423	28%	1,512
Walton-Verona High School	142	24.7%	576
Rise Academy	66	32.7%	202
ACCEL Academy	36	9.7%	372