East Kentucky Times

There were 4,342 white students enrolled in Johnson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 4.2% decrease from the 4,530 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Johnson County welcomed a total of 4,518 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 96.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Johnson County, Johnson Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 972 students, making up 96.9% 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
Johnson County Eagle Academy	95.8%	263
Johnson County Middle School	96.8%	493
Central Elementary School	95.1%	385
Flat Gap Elementary School	97.3%	226
Johnson Central High School	96.9%	1,003
Porter Elementary School	97.5%	445
W. R. Castle Memorial Elementary School	95%	421
Highland Elementary School	97%	463
Paintsville Elementary School	93.1%	467
Paintsville High School	95.7%	352