NE Kentucky News

There were 328 11th grade students enrolled in Carter County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.5% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

East Carter County High School welcomed most of the 11th grade students in the county, registering 179 students.

Within Carter County schools, the highest student population was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in preschool.

Statewide, Carter County ranked 44th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 44th the year before.

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	# of 11th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
East Carter County High School	179	23.2%	770
West Carter County High School	138	24.6%	561
Carter Virtual Academy	11	10.8%	102