Metro Lex News

There were 10,296 African American students enrolled in Fayette County School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.5% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Fayette County School District welcomed 43,799 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 23.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the district.

Fayette County School District roughly covers 68 schools within Fayette County and has a main office in Lexington.

Among the 68 schools in Fayette County School District, Bryan Station High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 716 students.

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.

Data also shows that between 2019 and 2023, there was an increase of 260% in the number of available teaching posts in Kentucky schools. This often leads to larger class sizes, combining programs, and retaining staff despite potential negative impacts on teacher working conditions.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total African American Students	African American %
2022-23	43,799	10,296	23.5%
2021-22	43,849	10,244	23.4%
2020-21	43,182	10,005	23.2%
2019-20	44,472	10,214	23%