Enrollment Analysis: Asian students comprised 5.1% of Fayette County's student body in 2022-23 school year

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

By Metro Lex News

Jul 18, 2024

There were 2,344 Asian students enrolled in Fayette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5% increase from the 2,232 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 5.1% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 68 schools in Fayette County, Rosa Parks Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 190 students, making up 25.1% 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.

Ethnicities in Fayette County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Fayette County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Arlington Elementary School	2.7%	372
Ashland Elementary School	3.2%	283
Veterans Park Elementary School	5.4%	722
Beaumont Middle School	10.2%	895
Scapa at Bluegrass	13.7%	277
Martin L. King Academy for Excellence Alternative	0.7%	453
Crawford Middle School	3.1%	864
Bryan Station Middle School	1.2%	862
Cassidy Elementary School	5.2%	712
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School	9.9%	1,125
Deep Springs Elementary School	0.3%	592
Dixie Elementary Magnet School	1.4%	566
Garden Springs Elementary School	2.8%	435
Henry Clay High School	6.9%	2,244
Athens-Chilesburg Elementary School	15.6%	553
Rosa Parks Elementary School	25.1%	757
Booker T. Washington Elementary School	1.9%	364
Liberty Elementary School	7.7%	771
Sandersville Elementary School	8.4%	783
Wellington Elementary School	20.2%	647
Lafayette High School	5.2%	2,592
Lansdowne Elementary School	5.2%	633
Leestown Middle School	2.6%	1,067
Lexington Trad Magnet School	1.2%	341
Madeline M. Breckinridge Elementary School	2.5%	637
Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elementary School	1.9%	565
Morton Middle School	4.2%	763
Northern Elementary School	0.4%	502
Fayette County Preschool Center	11.1%	81
Picadome Elementary School	3.3%	486
Southern Elementary School	4.2%	598
Squires Elementary School	0.4%	467
Stonewall Elementary School	4.6%	713
Russell Cave Elementary School	0.4%	272
Tates Creek Elementary School	2.8%	722
Coventry Oak Elementary School	2.2%	758
Garrett Morgan Elementary School	10%	811
Tates Creek Middle School	4.7%	835
Tates Creek High School	2.9%	1,934
Rise STEM Academy for Girls	3.8%	234
Clays Mill Elementary School	3%	541
Frederick Douglass High School	3.6%	1,853
STEAM Academy	3.7%	407
Success Academy	1.2%	426
Yates Elementary School	2.2%	445
Glendover Elementary School	9.5%	503
Meadowthorpe Elementary School	10.2%	530
Bryan Station High School	1.3%	2,132
Mary Todd Elementary School	0.2%	439
James Lane Allen Elementary School	0.6%	479
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School	8.9%	2,105
Jessie M. Clark Middle School	6.5%	1,097
Cardinal Valley Elementary School	0.3%	692
Winburn Middle School	3.2%	882
Millcreek Elementary School	1.7%	657
George Washington Carver STEM Academy	0.9%	106
Carter G. Woodson Academy	0.3%	289
Southern Middle School	2.9%	835
Brenda Cowan Elementary School	17%	572
Julius Marks Elementary School	1.7%	531
Opportunity Middle College	8.3%	84