East Kentucky Times

There were 98 11th grade students enrolled in Wolfe County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 7.5% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Wolfe County High School welcomed most of the 11th grade students in the county, registering 86 students.

Within Wolfe County schools, the highest student population was found in 10th grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in fourth grade.

Statewide, Wolfe County ranked 107th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 107th the year before.

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	# of 11th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Wolfe County High School	86	21.7%	396
Dessie Scott School	7	26.9%	26
Success Academy	5	15.2%	33