NE Kentucky News

There were 17 African American students enrolled in Carter County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Carter County welcomed a total of 4,486 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Carter County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of African American students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four students.

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 African American Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Tygart Creek Elementary School	0.3%	375
East Carter County High School	0.4%	770
East Carter Middle School	0.2%	528
Olive Hill Elementary School	0.5%	415
Prichard Elementary School	0.6%	668
Star Elementary School	0.7%	145
West Carter County High School	0.7%	561
West Carter Middle School	0.3%	395