East Kentucky Times

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

There were 2,261 students in Knott County School District, 2.4% lower than the year before.

Enrollment in Knott 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 97.7% of Knott County School District's total enrollment.

Knott County School District has a main office in Hindman and is the only school district within Knott 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
Knott County Central High School	587	596	-1.5%
Hindman Elementary School	475	515	-7.8%
Carr Creek Elementary School	392	391	0.3%
Emmalena Elementary School	232	239	-2.9%
Cordia School	224	221	1.4%
Beaver Creek Elementary School	210	228	-7.9%
Jones Fork Elementary School	195	179	8.9%