East Kentucky Times

There were 527 ninth grade students enrolled in Floyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Prestonsburg High School welcomed most of the ninth grade students in the county, registering 172 students.

Within Floyd County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Floyd County ranked 27th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 27th 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 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Prestonsburg High School	172	28.9%	595
Floyd Central High School	170	25.2%	675
Betsy Layne High School	136	28.7%	474
Renaissance Learning Center	49	12.1%	406