East Kentucky Times

There were 42 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Breathitt County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 44.8% increase from the 29 Hispanic or Latino students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Breathitt County welcomed a total of 2,553 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 1.6% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Breathitt County, Breathitt Regional School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 students, making up 3.8% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Highland-Turner Elementary School	1.3%	223
Breathitt Regional School	3.8%	313
Breathitt County Day Treatment	3.6%	55
Breathitt County High School	1%	819
Sebastian Elementary School	1.4%	515
Marie Roberts-Caney Elementary School	3.1%	259
Jackson City School	0.5%	369