East Kentucky Times

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

Of the 1,487 students attending Wolfe County schools, 97% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 1.3%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Wolfe County schools, representing 98.3% of the student body.

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

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 19.1% 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
Campton Elementary School	White	98%	461
Wolfe County High School	White	98.2%	388
Wolfe County Middle School	White	98.1%	210
Rogers Elementary School	White	99.4%	165
Red River Valley Elementary School	White	96.9%	159
Dessie Scott School	White	76.9%	65
Success Academy	White	92.3%	39