East Kentucky Times

The only school district in Martin County had rising enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 1,911 students in Martin County School District, 0.1% higher than the year before.

Enrollment in Martin County was steady with the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 52.9% of them were boys, and 47.1% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 97.7% of Martin County School District's total enrollment.

Martin County School District has a main office in Inez and is the only school district within Martin 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
Martin County High School	547	534	2.4%
Eden Elementary School	479	425	12.7%
Warfield Elementary School	349	348	0.3%
Inez Elementary School	293	296	-1%
Martin County Middle School	281	332	-15.4%