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There were 4,436 white students enrolled in Harlan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.4% decrease from the 4,452 white 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, white students comprised 93.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Harlan County, Harlan County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,022 students, making up 95.7% 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
Harlan County High School	95.7%	1,068
Black Mountain Elementary School	92.2%	320
Cawood Elementary School	98.3%	242
Cumberland Elementary School	89.7%	505
Evarts Elementary School	95.3%	359
Green Hills Elementary School	86.2%	145
James A. Cawood Elementary School	94.7%	359
Rosspoint Elementary School	97.6%	419
Wallins Elementary School	98.4%	435
Harlan Elementary School	87.2%	375
Sunshine School	89.5%	114
Harlan High School	85.5%	415