Bryan Station High School

Bryan Station High School operates as a well-populated high school in Lexington, Kentucky, run under Fayette County. Current enrollment sits at 2,030 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 558 students each, so Bryan Station High School sits 264% larger than that benchmark.

Fayette County comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 42,138 students; Bryan Station High School is among them.

Demographically, Bryan Station High School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 32% Black, 24% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Fayette County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Bryan Station High School has 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Fayette County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Bryan Station High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Fayette County put the typical household earns roughly $69,479 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Fayette County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), of which Bryan Station High School is one.

Bryan Station Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bryan Station High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 43%: 1,417 students in 2018 compared to 2,030 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 23% to 37%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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