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There were 943 white students enrolled in Lee County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.9% increase from the 935 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lee County welcomed a total of 974 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 96.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the two schools in Lee County, Lee County Middle High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 483 students, making up 96.8% 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
Lee County Middle High School	96.8%	499
Lee County Elementary School	96.8%	475