Bibb County Education: 433 Asian students were enrolled in 2023-24 school year

There were 433 Asian students enrolled in Bibb County school in the 2023-24 school year, 11% more than the previous year, according to reports from the Georgia Department of Education.

Data showed that Bibb County welcomed 22,746 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 1.9% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 39 schools in Bibb County, Academy For Classical Education recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 161 students.

According to the Georgia Department of Education, over 1.6 million students were enrolled in Georgia’s public schools during the 2021-22 school year. The state boasted a diverse and closely distributed student body across grade levels, with roughly 44% of the students in elementary, 24.5% in middle school, and 31.5% in high schools.

The state also registered an ethnically diverse student body, with 34.4% of the students identified as white, 36.5% as Black, 17.1% as Hispanic, and 4.5% as Asian.