NW Kentucky News

There were 46 Asian students enrolled in Henderson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 21.1% increase from the 38 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Henderson County, Henderson County South Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 students, making up 1.5% 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
Bend Gate Elementary School	1.3%	469
Cairo Elementary School	0.4%	278
A. B. Chandler Elementary School	0.3%	302
East Heights Elementary School	0.8%	382
Henderson County High School	0.5%	2,094
Henderson County North Middle School	0.3%	788
Thelma B. Johnson Early Learning Center	1.1%	459
South Heights Elementary School	0.6%	468
Henderson County South Middle School	1.5%	781
Jefferson Elementary School	0.5%	411