SW Bluegrass News

There were 44 Asian students enrolled in Boyle County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 12% decrease from the 50 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 0.9% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Boyle County, Boyle County High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 11 students, making up 1.2% 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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Boyle County Middle School	0.6%	710
Boyle County High School	1.2%	911
Junction City Elementary School	0.9%	448
Woodlawn Elementary School	1.4%	690
Perryville Elementary School	0.3%	309
Mary G. Hogsett Primary School	0.2%	405
John W. Bate Middle School	0.7%	422
Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School	0.9%	544
Danville High School	0.6%	511
Kentucky School for the Deaf	2.6%	77