Metro Lex News

There were 608 African American students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.5% decrease from the 611 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Jessamine County welcomed a total of 9,019 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 6.7% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Jessamine County, East Jessamine High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 89 students, making up 7.1% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Hattie C. Warner Elementary School	4.7%	573
West Jessamine High School	5.9%	1,364
East Jessamine High School	7.1%	1,254
Jessamine Early Learning Village	8.4%	956
The Providence School	8.2%	207
East Jessamine Middle School	8%	1,000
West Jessamine Middle School	4.9%	944
Ashgrove Academy	23.1%	26
Red Oak Elementary School	6.9%	552
Nicholasville Elementary School	6.9%	495
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School	5.7%	566
Brookside Elementary School	9.6%	562
Wilmore Elementary School	4.8%	520