Metro Lex News

The majority of students in Jessamine County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 9,192 students attending Jessamine County schools, 80.8% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 7%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Jessamine County schools, representing 77.1% of the student body.

Brookside Elementary School had the most even distribution of races among county schools, which included 73.4% white students, 9.4% Hispanic or Latino students, 8.9% African American students, 7.4% multiracial students, 0.8% Asian students, and 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 4.3% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
West Jessamine High School	White	83.4%	1,315
East Jessamine High School	White	83.7%	1,118
West Jessamine Middle School	White	82.4%	1,009
Jessamine Early Learning Village	White	78%	958
East Jessamine Middle School	White	80.2%	924
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School	White	79.1%	654
Brookside Elementary School	White	73.4%	631
Hattie C. Warner Elementary School	White	80.7%	627
Red Oak Elementary School	White	80.1%	608
Wilmore Elementary School	White	83.7%	595
Nicholasville Elementary School	White	78.5%	492
The Providence School	White	82.7%	231
Ashgrove Academy	White	96.7%	30