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There were 2,106 white students enrolled in Lewis County schools in 2022-23 school year

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KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

KY Commissioner of Education Jason Glass 2023 | Kentucky Department of Education

There were 2,106 white students enrolled in Lewis County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.2% decrease from the 2,176 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lewis County welcomed a total of 2,184 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 96.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Lewis County, Lewis County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 621 students, making up 95.2% 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.

Enrollment in Lewis County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of White Students EnrolmentTotal Enrollment
Garrison Elementary School96.1%308
Laurel Elementary School100%106
Lewis County Central Elementary School96.8%501
Lewis County Middle School95.9%315
Lewis County High School95.2%652
Tollesboro Elementary School98%302

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