East Kentucky Times

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

Of the 2,334 students attending Magoffin County schools, 98.4% were white. Hispanic or Latino 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 Magoffin County schools, representing 97.8% of the student body.

Herald Whitaker Middle School and Salyersville Grade School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, white, and African American.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 9.2% 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
Magoffin County High School	White	99.2%	635
Herald Whitaker Middle School	White	99%	522
Salyersville Grade School	White	96.5%	510
North Magoffin Elementary School	White	99.3%	461
South Magoffin Elementary School	White	97.1%	206