Metro Lex News

There were 686 first grade students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 10.3% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Hattie C. Warner Elementary School welcomed most of the first grade students in the county, registering 132 students.

Within Jessamine County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Jessamine County ranked 20th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 20th the year before.

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	# of 1st Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Hattie C. Warner Elementary School	132	23%	573
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School	125	22.1%	566
Brookside Elementary School	115	20.5%	562
Red Oak Elementary School	111	20.1%	552
Wilmore Elementary School	109	21%	520
Nicholasville Elementary School	94	19%	495