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There were 19,933 white students enrolled in Fayette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.8% decrease from the 20,289 white 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, white students comprised 43.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 68 schools in Fayette County, Lafayette High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,611 students, making up 62.2% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Arlington Elementary School	25%	372
Ashland Elementary School	58.3%	283
Uk Early Childhood Lab	60%	5
Veterans Park Elementary School	66.9%	722
Beaumont Middle School	55.4%	895
Scapa at Bluegrass	71.5%	277
Martin L. King Academy for Excellence Alternative	35.1%	453
Crawford Middle School	26.9%	864
Bryan Station Middle School	33.2%	862
Cassidy Elementary School	69.8%	712
Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School	57.2%	1,125
Deep Springs Elementary School	28%	592
Dixie Elementary Magnet School	46.1%	566
Garden Springs Elementary School	62.8%	435
Harrison Elementary School	21.5%	228
Henry Clay High School	49.6%	2,244
Athens-Chilesburg Elementary School	68.9%	553
Rosa Parks Elementary School	60.2%	757
The Stables	63.2%	57
Booker T. Washington Elementary School	11%	364
William Wells Brown Elementary School	13.3%	361
Liberty Elementary School	47.5%	771
Sandersville Elementary School	36.7%	783
Wellington Elementary School	55.6%	647
Lafayette High School	62.2%	2,592
Lansdowne Elementary School	37.6%	633
Leestown Middle School	29.9%	1,067
Family Care Center	17.5%	57
Lexington Trad Magnet School	17.6%	341
Madeline M. Breckinridge Elementary School	19%	637
Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elementary School	52.7%	565
Morton Middle School	55.6%	763
Northern Elementary School	21.5%	502
Fayette County Preschool Center	43.2%	81
Picadome Elementary School	48.8%	486
Southern Elementary School	37.3%	598
Squires Elementary School	48.4%	467
Stonewall Elementary School	72.9%	713
Russell Cave Elementary School	9.9%	272
Tates Creek Elementary School	31.9%	722
Coventry Oak Elementary School	24.1%	758
Garrett Morgan Elementary School	58%	811
Tates Creek Middle School	39.8%	835
Tates Creek High School	45%	1,934
Rise STEM Academy for Girls	37.6%	234
Clays Mill Elementary School	76.7%	541
Frederick Douglass High School	44.6%	1,853
STEAM Academy	52.1%	407
Success Academy	48.8%	426
Yates Elementary School	29%	445
Glendover Elementary School	52.1%	503
Meadowthorpe Elementary School	41.9%	530
Bryan Station High School	26.6%	2,132
Mary Todd Elementary School	16.6%	439
James Lane Allen Elementary School	29%	479
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School	40.9%	2,105
Jessie M. Clark Middle School	67.2%	1,097
Cardinal Valley Elementary School	11%	692
Winburn Middle School	22.2%	882
Millcreek Elementary School	34.1%	657
George Washington Carver STEM Academy	2.8%	106
Carter G. Woodson Academy	4.2%	289
Southern Middle School	47.7%	835
Brenda Cowan Elementary School	44.1%	572
Julius Marks Elementary School	43.3%	531
Audrey Grevious Center	30.8%	52
Fayette County Learning Center	52.2%	224
Opportunity Middle College	41.7%	84