East Kentucky Times

There were 497 12th grade students enrolled in Floyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number from the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Floyd Central High School welcomed most of the 12th grade students in the county, registering 166 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 12th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Floyd Central High School	166	24.6%	675
Prestonsburg High School	142	23.9%	595
Betsy Layne High School	99	20.9%	474
Renaissance Learning Center	90	22.2%	406