NE Kentucky News

The majority of students in Boyd County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 7,736 students attending Boyd County schools, 91% were white. Multiracial students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 3.5%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Boyd County schools, representing 88.9% of the student body.

Paul G. Blazer High School, Hager Elementary School, and Cannonsburg Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 8% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Paul G. Blazer High School	White	92.5%	992
Ashland Middle School	White	85.8%	839
Boyd County Middle School	White	95.7%	746
Ponderosa Elementary School	White	96.4%	414
Hager Elementary School	White	128.8%	382
Oakview Elementary School	White	90%	339
Crabbe Elementary School	White	79%	333
Fairview Elementary School	White	95.4%	326
Catlettsburg Elementary School	White	92.1%	318
Cannonsburg Elementary School	White	141.5%	313
Charles Russell Elementary School	White	86%	307
Poage Elementary School	White	86.1%	288
Ramey-Estep High School	White	75.5%	200