East Kentucky Times

There were 9,404 white students enrolled in Pike County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.9% decrease from the 9,587 white 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, white students comprised 95.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Pike County, Valley Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 893 students, making up 97.2% 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
Northpoint Academy	96.1%	103
Pike County Day Treatment	93.9%	49
Pike County Virtual Academy	97.1%	139
Belfry Elementary School	93.2%	632
East Ridge High School	98.7%	471
Feds Creek Elementary School	95.2%	188
Belfry Middle School	94.9%	369
Millard School	97.1%	663
Valley Elementary School	97.2%	919
Belfry High School	92.8%	572
Bevins Elementary School	97.6%	255
Pike County Central High School	94.9%	685
Dorton Elementary School	97.9%	283
Elkhorn City Elementary School	98.5%	476
Johns Creek Elementary School	97.8%	712
Kimper Elementary School	98.6%	138
Mullins Elementary School	93.2%	812
Phelps Elementary School	98.1%	320
Phelps High School	97.2%	253
Shelby Valley High School	97.9%	581
Pikeville Elementary School	91.8%	684
Pikeville High School	90.1%	535