East Kentucky Times

There were 73 multiracial students enrolled in Floyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.8% increase from the 71 multiracial students in 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, multiracial students comprised 1.1% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Floyd County, Betsy Layne Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 15 students, making up 2.1% 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 Multiracial Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Duff-Allen Central Elementary School	1%	508
Prestonsburg Elementary School	1.1%	713
Allen Elementary School	0.7%	536
May Valley Elementary School	1.2%	482
South Floyd Elementary School	0.4%	685
Renaissance Learning Center	1%	406
Betsy Layne High School	1.5%	474
Floyd Central High School	0.4%	675
Betsy Layne Elementary School	2.1%	700
James D. Adams Middle School	1.7%	345
John M. Stumbo Elementary School	1.5%	333
Prestonsburg High School	1.2%	595