East Kentucky Times

There were 55 Asian students enrolled in Pike County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.5% decrease from the 57 Asian 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, Asian students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Pike County, Pikeville High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 19 students, making up 3.6% 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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Belfry Elementary School	0.5%	632
Belfry Middle School	0.3%	369
Valley Elementary School	0.1%	919
Belfry High School	0.9%	572
Pike County Central High School	0.9%	685
Johns Creek Elementary School	0.3%	712
Mullins Elementary School	0.4%	812
Pikeville Elementary School	2.2%	684
Pikeville High School	3.6%	535