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There were 89 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Harlan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 12.7% increase from the 79 Hispanic or Latino students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Harlan County welcomed a total of 4,756 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 1.9% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Harlan County, Green Hills Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 18 students, making up 12.4% 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 Hispanic or Latino Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Harlan County High School	1.4%	1,068
Black Mountain Elementary School	1.6%	320
Cumberland Elementary School	2.6%	505
Evarts Elementary School	1.9%	359
Green Hills Elementary School	12.4%	145
James A. Cawood Elementary School	3.1%	359
Rosspoint Elementary School	0.7%	419
Wallins Elementary School	0.5%	435
Harlan Elementary School	1.1%	375
Sunshine School	0.9%	114
Harlan High School	2.4%	415