East Kentucky Times

There were 2,633 white students enrolled in Breathitt County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 11.3% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that white students made up 94.7% of the 2,780 students in Breathitt County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the most prevalent ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the two school districts in Breathitt County, Breathitt County School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 2,257 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in this article are located in cities associated with Breathitt County.

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.

District	% of white students enrolment	Total enrollment
Jackson Independent School District	98.2	383
Breathitt County School District	94.2	2,397