East Kentucky Times

The majority of students in Floyd County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 6,644 students attending Floyd County schools, 97.8% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 0.9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Floyd County schools, representing 96.8% of the student body.

Prestonsburg Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county dropped to 0.2% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
South Floyd Elementary School	White	98.1%	828
Prestonsburg Elementary School	White	96%	815
Betsy Layne Elementary School	White	97.7%	744
Floyd Central High School	White	98.9%	741
Duff-Allen Central Elementary School	White	98.4%	686
Allen Elementary School	White	96.2%	577
Prestonsburg High School	White	99.1%	535
Betsy Layne High School	White	98.4%	448
May Valley Elementary School	White	98.7%	390
John M. Stumbo Elementary School	White	97.9%	380
James D. Adams Middle School	White	96.7%	363
Renaissance Learning Center	White	96.4%	137