Metro Lex News

There were 11,128 African American students enrolled in Fayette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.3% increase from the 10,985 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Fayette County welcomed a total of 45,877 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 24.3% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 68 schools in Fayette County, Bryan Station High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 716 students, making up 33.6% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Arlington Elementary School	23.1%	372
Ashland Elementary School	23%	283
Veterans Park Elementary School	13.3%	722
Beaumont Middle School	12.3%	895
Scapa at Bluegrass	5.4%	277
Martin L. King Academy for Excellence Alternative	41.5%	453
Crawford Middle School	36%	864
Bryan Station Middle School	22.7%	862
Cassidy Elementary School	11.8%	712
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School	16.8%	1,125
Deep Springs Elementary School	31.2%	592
Dixie Elementary Magnet School	26.1%	566
Garden Springs Elementary School	9.9%	435
Harrison Elementary School	54.4%	228
Henry Clay High School	21.5%	2,244
Athens-Chilesburg Elementary School	5.4%	553
Rosa Parks Elementary School	5.3%	757
The Stables	15.8%	57
Booker T. Washington Elementary School	40.1%	364
William Wells Brown Elementary School	62.6%	361
Liberty Elementary School	21.3%	771
Sandersville Elementary School	32.1%	783
Wellington Elementary School	7.4%	647
Lafayette High School	12.4%	2,592
Lansdowne Elementary School	33%	633
Leestown Middle School	27.6%	1,067
Family Care Center	33.3%	57
Lexington Trad Magnet School	58.9%	341
Madeline M. Breckinridge Elementary School	37.2%	637
Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elementary School	12.9%	565
Morton Middle School	18.9%	763
Northern Elementary School	32.5%	502
Fayette County Preschool Center	12.3%	81
Picadome Elementary School	30.9%	486
Southern Elementary School	29.9%	598
Squires Elementary School	21.4%	467
Stonewall Elementary School	7.6%	713
Russell Cave Elementary School	13.2%	272
Tates Creek Elementary School	40.3%	722
Coventry Oak Elementary School	31.1%	758
Garrett Morgan Elementary School	18.1%	811
Tates Creek Middle School	30.1%	835
Tates Creek High School	28.7%	1,934
Rise STEM Academy for Girls	44%	234
Clays Mill Elementary School	3.5%	541
Frederick Douglass High School	30.4%	1,853
STEAM Academy	27%	407
Success Academy	29.1%	426
Yates Elementary School	31%	445
Glendover Elementary School	9.7%	503
Meadowthorpe Elementary School	23.8%	530
Bryan Station High School	33.6%	2,132
Mary Todd Elementary School	37.6%	439
James Lane Allen Elementary School	23.4%	479
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School	14.5%	2,105
Jessie M. Clark Middle School	10.4%	1,097
Cardinal Valley Elementary School	14.5%	692
Winburn Middle School	34.5%	882
Millcreek Elementary School	38.1%	657
George Washington Carver STEM Academy	82.1%	106
Carter G. Woodson Academy	77.2%	289
Southern Middle School	28%	835
Brenda Cowan Elementary School	20.8%	572
Julius Marks Elementary School	29.2%	531
Audrey Grevious Center	51.9%	52
Fayette County Learning Center	25.9%	224
Opportunity Middle College	22.6%	84