East Kentucky Times

There were 38 Hispanic students enrolled in Breathitt County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 31% more than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Hispanic students made up 1.4% of the 2,780 students in Breathitt County during the 2022-23 school year, making them the third most represented ethnicity in the county school districts.

Among the two school districts in Breathitt County, Breathitt County School District recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 37 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 hispanic students enrolment	Total enrollment
Breathitt County School District	1.5	2,397
Jackson Independent School District	< 0.1	383