SW Bluegrass News

There were 374 African American students enrolled in Boyle County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.8% decrease from the 381 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Boyle County welcomed a total of 5,161 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 7.2% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Boyle County, Danville High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 93 students, making up 18.2% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Boyle County Middle School	1.5%	710
Boyle County High School	2.5%	911
Junction City Elementary School	1.8%	448
Woodlawn Elementary School	1.6%	690
Perryville Elementary School	1.3%	309
Mary G. Hogsett Primary School	15.6%	405
John W. Bate Middle School	13%	422
Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School	14.3%	544
Anchor Academy	22.2%	72
Danville High School	18.2%	511
Sunrise Academy	9.7%	62
Kentucky School for the Deaf	7.8%	77