East Kentucky Times

There were 24 African American students enrolled in Knott County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 33.3% decrease from the 36 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Knott County welcomed a total of 2,315 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Knott County, Carr Creek Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven students, making up 1.8% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Carr Creek Elementary School	1.8%	392
Cordia School	1.8%	224
Emmalena Elementary School	0.4%	232
Hindman Elementary School	1.1%	475
Jones Fork Elementary School	1%	195
Knott County Central High School	0.9%	587