East Kentucky Times

There were 102 African American students enrolled in Pike County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 7.3% decrease from the 110 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Pike County welcomed a total of 9,839 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Pike County, Belfry High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 21 students, making up 3.7% 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
Northpoint Academy	1%	103
Pike County Day Treatment	4.1%	49
Belfry Elementary School	1.7%	632
East Ridge High School	0.6%	471
Belfry Middle School	1.9%	369
Millard School	0.8%	663
Valley Elementary School	0.2%	919
Belfry High School	3.7%	572
Bevins Elementary School	0.4%	255
Pike County Central High School	1%	685
Dorton Elementary School	0.4%	283
Elkhorn City Elementary School	0.2%	476
Mullins Elementary School	1%	812
Phelps Elementary School	0.3%	320
Shelby Valley High School	1.2%	581
Pikeville Elementary School	2.5%	684
Pikeville High School	1.3%	535