NE Kentucky News

There were 174 African American students enrolled in Boyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.1% decrease from the 176 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Boyd County welcomed a total of 7,515 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 2.3% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Boyd County, Paul G. Blazer High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 36 students, making up 3.8% 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
Ashland Alternative School	5%	40
Paul G. Blazer High School	3.8%	958
Ashland Head Start	4.3%	210
Ashland Middle School	3.2%	739
Crabbe Elementary School	5%	358
Hager Elementary School	2.1%	374
Oakview Elementary School	1.9%	312
Poage Elementary School	5.3%	323
Charles Russell Elementary School	3.4%	234
Boyd County High School	0.5%	948
Cannonsburg Elementary School	1%	301
Boyd County Middle School	0.7%	668
Summit Elementary School	1.8%	508
Ramey-Estep High School	17.6%	51
Catlettsburg Elementary School	0.9%	227
Ponderosa Elementary School	0.3%	340
Boyd County Early Childhood Academy	0.8%	252
Fairview Elementary School	1.5%	261
Fairview High School	1.6%	372