NE Kentucky News

There were 2,520 white students enrolled in Lawrence County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 2.9% decrease from the 2,596 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lawrence County welcomed a total of 2,621 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 96.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Lawrence County, Lawrence County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 753 students, making up 96.3% 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
Louisa East Elementary School	96.3%	514
Louisa West Elementary School	94.4%	390
Blaine Elementary School	98.9%	188
Fallsburg Elementary School	97.3%	260
Louisa Middle School	95.5%	487
Lawrence County High School	96.3%	782