East Kentucky Times

There were 12 African American students enrolled in Martin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 9.1% increase from the 11 African American students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Martin County welcomed a total of 1,949 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Martin County, Martin County High School recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five students, making up 0.9% 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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Eden Elementary School	0.4%	479
Inez Elementary School	0.3%	293
Martin County High School	0.9%	547
Warfield Elementary School	0.6%	349
Martin County Middle School	0.7%	281