East Kentucky Times

There were 6,240 white students enrolled in Floyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.1% decrease from the 6,441 white 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, white students comprised 96.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Floyd County, Betsy Layne Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 678 students, making up 96.9% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Duff-Allen Central Elementary School	96.9%	508
Prestonsburg Elementary School	95%	713
Allen Elementary School	96.8%	536
May Valley Elementary School	96.3%	482
South Floyd Elementary School	97.4%	685
Renaissance Learning Center	97.5%	406
Betsy Layne High School	96.8%	474
Floyd Central High School	98.1%	675
Betsy Layne Elementary School	96.9%	700
James D. Adams Middle School	96.2%	345
John M. Stumbo Elementary School	97%	333
Prestonsburg High School	96%	595