East Kentucky Times

There were 2,374 white students enrolled in Breathitt County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.7% decrease from the 2,465 white 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, white students comprised 93% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Breathitt County, Breathitt County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 805 students, making up 98.3% 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
Highland-Turner Elementary School	97.3%	223
Breathitt Regional School	65.8%	313
Breathitt County Day Treatment	56.4%	55
Breathitt County High School	98.3%	819
Sebastian Elementary School	97.9%	515
Marie Roberts-Caney Elementary School	96.1%	259
Jackson City School	98.1%	369