Metro Lex News

There were 3,078 multiracial students enrolled in Fayette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.7% increase from the 2,913 multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 6.7% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 68 schools in Fayette County, Lafayette High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 159 students, making up 6.1% 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.

School name	% of Multiracial Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Arlington Elementary School	7.3%	372
Ashland Elementary School	4.9%	283
Veterans Park Elementary School	7.6%	722
Beaumont Middle School	4.1%	895
Scapa at Bluegrass	6.9%	277
Martin L. King Academy for Excellence Alternative	8.4%	453
Crawford Middle School	8.6%	864
Bryan Station Middle School	5.9%	862
Cassidy Elementary School	5.3%	712
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School	6.5%	1,125
Deep Springs Elementary School	6.8%	592
Dixie Elementary Magnet School	10.2%	566
Garden Springs Elementary School	6.2%	435
Harrison Elementary School	7%	228
Henry Clay High School	5.9%	2,244
Athens-Chilesburg Elementary School	4.3%	553
Rosa Parks Elementary School	3.3%	757
The Stables	5.3%	57
Booker T. Washington Elementary School	8%	364
William Wells Brown Elementary School	10.2%	361
Liberty Elementary School	9.6%	771
Sandersville Elementary School	8.3%	783
Wellington Elementary School	8.8%	647
Lafayette High School	6.1%	2,592
Lansdowne Elementary School	8.4%	633
Leestown Middle School	5.3%	1,067
Family Care Center	5.3%	57
Lexington Trad Magnet School	10.3%	341
Madeline M. Breckinridge Elementary School	8.9%	637
Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elementary School	10.6%	565
Morton Middle School	6%	763
Northern Elementary School	6.4%	502
Fayette County Preschool Center	7.4%	81
Picadome Elementary School	6.4%	486
Southern Elementary School	10.7%	598
Squires Elementary School	10.3%	467
Stonewall Elementary School	7%	713
Russell Cave Elementary School	1.1%	272
Tates Creek Elementary School	10.2%	722
Coventry Oak Elementary School	4.6%	758
Garrett Morgan Elementary School	6.3%	811
Tates Creek Middle School	8.9%	835
Tates Creek High School	6.8%	1,934
Rise STEM Academy for Girls	8.1%	234
Clays Mill Elementary School	9.2%	541
Frederick Douglass High School	6.3%	1,853
STEAM Academy	4.9%	407
Success Academy	6.6%	426
Yates Elementary School	8.1%	445
Glendover Elementary School	6.6%	503
Meadowthorpe Elementary School	7.9%	530
Bryan Station High School	5.1%	2,132
Mary Todd Elementary School	4.3%	439
James Lane Allen Elementary School	6.9%	479
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School	3.9%	2,105
Jessie M. Clark Middle School	7%	1,097
Cardinal Valley Elementary School	3.6%	692
Winburn Middle School	2.8%	882
Millcreek Elementary School	10.5%	657
George Washington Carver STEM Academy	13.2%	106
Carter G. Woodson Academy	4.8%	289
Southern Middle School	6.6%	835
Brenda Cowan Elementary School	8.2%	572
Julius Marks Elementary School	10.9%	531
Audrey Grevious Center	3.8%	52
Fayette County Learning Center	7.6%	224
Opportunity Middle College	7.1%	84