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There were 63 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Fayette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.5% decrease from the 66 American Indian or Alaska Native 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 68 schools in Fayette County, Lafayette High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four students, making up 0.2% 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 American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Arlington Elementary School	0.3%	372
Ashland Elementary School	0.7%	283
Veterans Park Elementary School	0.1%	722
Beaumont Middle School	0.2%	895
Scapa at Bluegrass	0.4%	277
Bryan Station Middle School	0.3%	862
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School	0.2%	1,125
Deep Springs Elementary School	0.2%	592
Dixie Elementary Magnet School	0.4%	566
Harrison Elementary School	0.4%	228
Henry Clay High School	0%	2,244
Rosa Parks Elementary School	0.3%	757
Booker T. Washington Elementary School	0.3%	364
William Wells Brown Elementary School	0.6%	361
Sandersville Elementary School	0.1%	783
Wellington Elementary School	0.2%	647
Lafayette High School	0.2%	2,592
Lansdowne Elementary School	0.2%	633
Leestown Middle School	0.1%	1,067
Madeline M. Breckinridge Elementary School	0.3%	637
Morton Middle School	0.1%	763
Southern Elementary School	0.2%	598
Squires Elementary School	0.2%	467
Tates Creek Elementary School	0.3%	722
Garrett Morgan Elementary School	0.1%	811
Tates Creek Middle School	0.4%	835
Tates Creek High School	0.1%	1,934
Frederick Douglass High School	0.1%	1,853
Yates Elementary School	0.4%	445
Glendover Elementary School	0.2%	503
Meadowthorpe Elementary School	0.2%	530
Bryan Station High School	0%	2,132
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School	0.1%	2,105
Jessie M. Clark Middle School	0.2%	1,097
Winburn Middle School	0.3%	882
Millcreek Elementary School	0.5%	657
Southern Middle School	0.1%	835
Brenda Cowan Elementary School	0.2%	572
Julius Marks Elementary School	0.2%	531