East Kentucky Times

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

Of the 4,746 students attending Johnson County schools, 97.5% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 0.8%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Johnson County schools, representing 96.1% of the student body.

Central Elementary School and Johnson Central High 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 increased by 0.7% 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
Johnson Central High School	White	98.1%	1,130
Johnson County Middle School	White	97.7%	571
Highland Elementary School	White	96.5%	521
Central Elementary School	White	96.3%	514
W. R. Castle Memorial Elementary School	White	99.1%	435
Porter Elementary School	White	96.9%	425
Paintsville Elementary School	White	96.9%	422
Paintsville High School	White	97.7%	394
Flat Gap Elementary School	White	98.4%	311
Johnson County Eagle Academy	White	87%	23