NE Kentucky News

There were 6,644 white students enrolled in Boyd County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.2% decrease from the 6,791 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Boyd County welcomed a total of 7,515 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 88.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Boyd County, Boyd County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 898 students, making up 94.7% of the school's total student body.

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 name	% of White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Ashland Alternative School	75%	40
Paul G. Blazer High School	81.7%	958
Ashland Head Start	79%	210
Ashland Middle School	83.8%	739
Crabbe Elementary School	75.7%	358
Hager Elementary School	88.2%	374
Oakview Elementary School	86.5%	312
Poage Elementary School	86.7%	323
Charles Russell Elementary School	82.5%	234
Boyd County High School	94.7%	948
Cannonsburg Elementary School	94%	301
Boyd County Middle School	93.3%	668
Boyd County Central School	87.2%	39
Summit Elementary School	93.5%	508
Ramey-Estep High School	80.4%	51
Catlettsburg Elementary School	89%	227
Ponderosa Elementary School	93.5%	340
Boyd County Early Childhood Academy	95.2%	252
Fairview Elementary School	93.9%	261
Fairview High School	92.2%	372