Metro Lex News

There were 6,913 white students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.7% increase from the 6,796 white 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, white students comprised 76.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Jessamine County, West Jessamine High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,094 students, making up 80.2% 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
Hattie C. Warner Elementary School	79.9%	573
West Jessamine High School	80.2%	1,364
East Jessamine High School	77%	1,254
Jessamine Early Learning Village	72.4%	956
The Providence School	73.4%	207
East Jessamine Middle School	75.4%	1,000
West Jessamine Middle School	80.5%	944
Ashgrove Academy	57.7%	26
Red Oak Elementary School	75.5%	552
Nicholasville Elementary School	76%	495
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School	76.3%	566
Brookside Elementary School	67.4%	562
Wilmore Elementary School	80.6%	520