East Kentucky Times

There were 28 African American students enrolled in Floyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Floyd County welcomed a total of 6,452 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Floyd County, South Floyd Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven students, making up 1% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Duff-Allen Central Elementary School	0.4%	508
Prestonsburg Elementary School	0.7%	713
Allen Elementary School	0.6%	536
May Valley Elementary School	0.8%	482
South Floyd Elementary School	1%	685
Renaissance Learning Center	0.2%	406
Floyd Central High School	0.3%	675
Betsy Layne Elementary School	0.1%	700
James D. Adams Middle School	0.3%	345
Prestonsburg High School	0.3%	595