NW Kentucky News

There were 808 African American students enrolled in Henderson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7% increase from the 755 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Henderson County welcomed a total of 7,818 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 10.3% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Henderson County, Henderson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 185 students, making up 8.8% 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
Bend Gate Elementary School	12.6%	469
The Central Academy	16.2%	517
Cairo Elementary School	2.2%	278
A. B. Chandler Elementary School	5.3%	302
East Heights Elementary School	11.3%	382
Henderson County High School	8.8%	2,094
Henderson County North Middle School	9.8%	788
Niagara Elementary School	0.3%	288
Thelma B. Johnson Early Learning Center	13.7%	459
South Heights Elementary School	20.3%	468
Spottsville Elementary School	6.9%	581
Henderson County South Middle School	10.1%	781
Jefferson Elementary School	14.6%	411