East Kentucky Times

The only school district in Floyd County suffered declining enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 5,877 students in Floyd County School District, 0.2% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Floyd County fell short of the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 51.8% of them were boys, and 48.2% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 96.7% of Floyd County School District's total enrollment.

Floyd County School District has a main office in Eastern and is the only school district within Floyd County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Prestonsburg Elementary School	713	719	-0.8%
Betsy Layne Elementary School	700	714	-2%
South Floyd Elementary School	685	659	3.9%
Floyd Central High School	675	690	-2.2%
Prestonsburg High School	595	591	0.7%
Allen Elementary School	536	522	2.7%
Duff-Allen Central Elementary School	508	635	-20%
May Valley Elementary School	482	356	35.4%
Betsy Layne High School	474	436	8.7%
Renaissance Learning Center	406	672	-39.6%
James D. Adams Middle School	345	347	-0.6%
John M. Stumbo Elementary School	333	313	6.4%