Metro Lex News

There were 638 fifth grade students enrolled in Jessamine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School welcomed most of the fifth grade students in the county, registering 130 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 5th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School	130	23%	566
Red Oak Elementary School	120	21.7%	552
Wilmore Elementary School	105	20.2%	520
Brookside Elementary School	102	18.1%	562
Hattie C. Warner Elementary School	94	16.4%	573
Nicholasville Elementary School	87	17.6%	495