SW Bluegrass News

There were 392 eighth grade students enrolled in Boyle County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4.4% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Boyle County Middle School welcomed most of the eighth grade students in the county, registering 233 students.

Within Boyle County schools, the highest student population was found in sixth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Boyle County ranked 35th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 35th 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 8th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Boyle County Middle School	233	32.8%	710
John W. Bate Middle School	137	32.5%	422
Anchor Academy	9	12.5%	72
Sunrise Academy	8	12.9%	62
Kentucky School for the Deaf	5	6.5%	77