Metro Lex News

There were 662 third grade students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.1% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Hattie C. Warner Elementary School welcomed most of the third grade students in the county, registering 129 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 3rd Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Hattie C. Warner Elementary School	129	22.5%	573
Brookside Elementary School	126	22.4%	562
Nicholasville Elementary School	117	23.6%	495
Red Oak Elementary School	102	18.5%	552
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School	99	17.5%	566
Wilmore Elementary School	89	17.1%	520