North Kentucky News

There were 307 fourth grade students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.3% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Dry Ridge Elementary School welcomed most of the fourth grade students in the county, registering 76 students.

Within Grant County schools, the highest student population was found in kindergarten, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Grant County ranked 42nd in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 42nd 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 4th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Dry Ridge Elementary School	76	16.4%	464
Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary School	72	15.6%	463
Sherman Elementary School	65	13.7%	476
Williamstown Elementary School	57	14%	408
Mason-Corinth Elementary School	37	11.8%	314