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There were 4,311 white students enrolled in Bell County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.6% decrease from the 4,383 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Bell County welcomed a total of 4,652 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 92.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Bell County, Bell County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 724 students, making up 97.8% 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
Bell Central School Center	97.8%	536
Page School Center	96.6%	320
Bell County High School	97.8%	740
Frakes School Center	98.3%	118
Lone Jack School Center	96.9%	229
Right Fork School Center	98.2%	170
Yellow Creek School Center	94.3%	636
Middlesboro Alternative School	86.4%	44
Middlesboro Elementary School	86.3%	496
Middlesboro Group Home School	40%	30
Middlesboro Middle School	81.4%	317
Middlesboro High School	82.4%	375
Pineville Independent School	94.2%	641