East Kentucky Times

There were 2,262 white students enrolled in Knott County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.7% decrease from the 2,301 white 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, white students comprised 97.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Knott County, Knott County Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 574 students, making up 97.8% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Beaver Creek Elementary School	99.5%	210
Carr Creek Elementary School	97.2%	392
Cordia School	95.1%	224
Emmalena Elementary School	99.6%	232
Hindman Elementary School	97.7%	475
Jones Fork Elementary School	97.4%	195
Knott County Central High School	97.8%	587