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There were 11 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Boyle County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as 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, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Boyle County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of three 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.

School name	% of American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Boyle County Middle School	0.1%	710
Boyle County High School	0.3%	911
Junction City Elementary School	0.7%	448
Woodlawn Elementary School	0.1%	690
Perryville Elementary School	0.6%	309
John W. Bate Middle School	0.2%	422