East Kentucky Times

There were 2,076 white students enrolled in Magoffin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.7% decrease from the 2,091 white students 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, white students comprised 97.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Magoffin County, Magoffin County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 648 students, making up 98% 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
North Magoffin Elementary School	97.8%	447
South Magoffin Elementary School	98.2%	224
Herald Whitaker Middle School	97.7%	260
Salyersville Grade School	96.3%	537
Magoffin County High School	98%	661