East Kentucky Times

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

Of the 2,117 students attending Martin County schools, 98.9% were white. African American students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 0.5%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Martin County schools, representing 97.6% of the student body.

Inez Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, 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 9.4% 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
Martin County High School	White	98.8%	565
Martin County Middle School	White	100%	426
Eden Elementary School	White	99.3%	417
Warfield Elementary School	White	99.2%	377
Inez Elementary School	White	97%	332