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There were 5,091 white students enrolled in Knox County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 25.5% increase from the 4,056 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Knox County welcomed a total of 5,385 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 94.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Knox County, Knox Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 785 students, making up 95.5% 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
Barbourville City School	94.3%	760
Barbourville Learning Center	83.3%	12
Lynn Camp Elementary School	95.1%	594
Knox Appalachian School	70.5%	95
Knox County Middle School	96%	474
Lynn Camp Middle High School	94.4%	534
Central Elementary School	90.3%	424
Knox County Day Treatment	94.1%	68
Knox County Learning Academy	89.2%	102
Knox Inspire Academy	93.8%	97
Dewitt Elementary School	94.5%	146
Flat Lick Elementary School	98.2%	224
Girdler Elementary School	97%	332
G. R. Hampton Elementary School	97.4%	307
Knox Central High School	95.5%	822
Jesse D. Lay Elementary School	96.4%	394