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There were 4,872 white students enrolled in Perry County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.3% decrease from the 4,889 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Perry County welcomed a total of 5,168 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 94.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Perry County, Perry County Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 882 students, making up 94.6% 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
Hazard High School	87.7%	316
Hazard Middle School	88.3%	316
Roy G. Eversole Elementary School	90.9%	483
Buckhorn School	95.5%	357
Learning Academy	89.6%	96
Perry County Alternative School	95.2%	21
East Perry County Elementary School	95.1%	715
Perry County Central High School	94.6%	932
Leatherwood Elementary School	99.1%	109
Robert W. Combs Elementary School	97.6%	418
Robinson Elementary School	96.3%	295
Viper Elementary School	98.1%	259
West Perry Elementary School	95.7%	851