NE Kentucky News

There were 4,294 white 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, white students comprised 95.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Carter County, East Carter County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 724 students, making up 94% 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
Carter Virtual Academy	94.1%	102
Heritage Elementary School	97.8%	367
Tygart Creek Elementary School	96%	375
Carter City Elementary School	97.5%	160
East Carter County High School	94%	770
East Carter Middle School	93.6%	528
Olive Hill Elementary School	97.8%	415
Prichard Elementary School	93.4%	668
Star Elementary School	97.9%	145
West Carter County High School	97.3%	561
West Carter Middle School	98%	395