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There were 26 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7.1% decrease from the 28 American Indian or Alaska Native 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Jessamine County, West Jessamine Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six students, making up 0.6% 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
West Jessamine High School	0.2%	1,364
East Jessamine High School	0.3%	1,254
The Providence School	0.5%	207
East Jessamine Middle School	0.5%	1,000
West Jessamine Middle School	0.6%	944
Nicholasville Elementary School	0.8%	495
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School	0.2%	566
Wilmore Elementary School	0.4%	520