East Kentucky Times

There were 14 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Martin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 12.5% decrease from the 16 Hispanic or Latino 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, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 0.7% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Martin County, Eden Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six students, making up 1.3% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Eden Elementary School	1.3%	479
Inez Elementary School	0.3%	293
Martin County High School	0.9%	547
Warfield Elementary School	0.6%	349