NE Kentucky News

There were 58 multiracial students enrolled in Carter County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 13.7% increase from the 51 multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 1.3% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Carter County, East Carter County High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 13 students, making up 1.7% 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 Multiracial Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Carter Virtual Academy	2%	102
Heritage Elementary School	0.8%	367
Tygart Creek Elementary School	1.1%	375
East Carter County High School	1.7%	770
East Carter Middle School	2.1%	528
Olive Hill Elementary School	0.2%	415
Prichard Elementary School	1.6%	668
Star Elementary School	1.4%	145
West Carter County High School	1.2%	561
West Carter Middle School	1%	395