NE Kentucky News

There were 638 ninth grade students enrolled in Boyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Paul G. Blazer High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 278 students.

Within Boyd County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in 12th grade.

Statewide, Boyd County ranked 25th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 25th 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 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Paul G. Blazer High School	278	29%	958
Boyd County High School	276	29.1%	948
Fairview High School	52	14%	372
Ramey-Estep High School	17	33.3%	51
Ashland Alternative School	8	20%	40
Boyd County Central School	7	17.9%	39