NE Kentucky News

There were 33 Asian students enrolled in Boyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 19.5% decrease from the 41 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Boyd County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five students.

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
Paul G. Blazer High School	0.5%	958
Ashland Head Start	2.4%	210
Ashland Middle School	0.5%	739
Hager Elementary School	0.8%	374
Boyd County High School	0.3%	948
Cannonsburg Elementary School	1%	301
Boyd County Middle School	0.4%	668
Summit Elementary School	0.2%	508
Ramey-Estep High School	2%	51
Catlettsburg Elementary School	1.8%	227
Ponderosa Elementary School	0.3%	340