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The majority of students in Laurel County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Of the 11,145 students attending Laurel County schools, 94.6% were white. Hispanic or Latino students were the second most represented ethnicity, making up 1.9%.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Laurel County schools, representing 93.7% of the student body.

East Bernstadt Elementary School had the most diverse student body in the county, which included African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in schools in the county increased by 5.4% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
North Laurel High School	White	95.5%	1,605
South Laurel High School	White	94.5%	1,378
South Laurel Middle School	White	94.5%	1,174
North Laurel Middle School	White	94.4%	1,147
Hunter Hills Elementary School	White	94.7%	779
Wyan-Pine Grove Elementary School	White	89.4%	558
Bush Elementary School	White	95.5%	537
East Bernstadt Elementary School	White	124.2%	528
Colony Elementary School	White	96.8%	408
Sublimity Elementary School	White	94.4%	395
Hazel Green Elementary School	White	97.8%	359
Johnson Elementary School	White	95.6%	342
Camp Ground Elementary School	White	97%	338
Keavy Elementary School	White	96.4%	331
Cold Hill Elementary School	White	95.6%	297
Laurel County Day Treatment	White	89.1%	128
McDaniel Learning Center	White	92.3%	117