NE Kentucky News

There were 11 Asian students enrolled in Carter County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 22.2% increase from the nine Asian students in 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, Asian students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Carter County, East Carter County High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven students, making up 0.9% 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 Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Carter Virtual Academy	1%	102
East Carter County High School	0.9%	770
East Carter Middle School	0.2%	528
Prichard Elementary School	0.3%	668