East Kentucky Times

There were 1,903 white students enrolled in Martin County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.8% increase from the 1,888 white 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, white students comprised 97.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Martin County, Martin County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 531 students, making up 97.1% 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
Eden Elementary School	97.9%	479
Inez Elementary School	97.3%	293
Martin County High School	97.1%	547
Warfield Elementary School	98%	349
Martin County Middle School	98.2%	281