East Kentucky Times

Breathitt County School District had the highest enrollment among Breathitt County districts, welcoming 2,131 students during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 61.1% of them were boys, and 38.9% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 92.2% of the total enrollment.

Breathitt County School District roughly covers schools within Breathitt County with its main office in Jackson.

Among the two districts in Breathitt County, Jackson Independent School District ranked second in enrollment numbers with 369 students.

In the previous school year, Breathitt County School District had the highest number of students among Breathitt County districts.

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.

District	City (main office)	Total Enrollment
Breathitt County School District	Jackson	2,131
Jackson Independent School District	Jackson	369