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There were 2,256 white students enrolled in Jackson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.6% decrease from the 2,269 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Jackson County welcomed a total of 2,324 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 97.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the eight schools in Jackson County, Jackson County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 588 students, making up 98.2% 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
Jackson County High School	98.2%	599
Jackson County Middle School	96.6%	447
Barnabus Home Middle School	66.7%	6
Barnabus Home High School	96.2%	26
Jackson County Schools Learning Center	100%	26
McKee Elementary School	95.6%	428
Sand Gap Elementary School	95.8%	284
Tyner Elementary School	98.4%	508