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There were 102 Asian students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in 2022-23 school year

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

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

There were 102 Asian students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.1% increase from the 98 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 1.1% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Jessamine County, West Jessamine High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 21 students, making up 1.5% 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 Jessamine County in 2022-23 School Year
White [76.6%]Hispanic or Latino [9%]African American [6.7%]Multiracial [6%]Ethnicities with <5% [1.4%]

Enrollment in Jessamine County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Asian Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
West Jessamine High School1.5%1,364
East Jessamine High School0.7%1,254
Jessamine Early Learning Village1.6%956
East Jessamine Middle School0.6%1,000
West Jessamine Middle School1.1%944
Red Oak Elementary School0.7%552
Nicholasville Elementary School0.2%495
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School1.2%566
Brookside Elementary School1.6%562
Wilmore Elementary School3.8%520

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