East Kentucky Times

There were four African American students enrolled in Magoffin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 300% increase from the one African American student in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Magoffin County welcomed a total of 2,129 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Magoffin County, Salyersville Grade School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two students, making up 0.4% 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
North Magoffin Elementary School	0.2%	447
Salyersville Grade School	0.4%	537
Magoffin County High School	0.2%	661