North Kentucky News

There were 339 sixth grade students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 5.9% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Grant County Middle School welcomed most of the sixth grade students in the county, registering 279 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 6th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Grant County Middle School	279	33%	846
Williamstown Junior High School	60	35.1%	171