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There were 13 Hispanic or Latino students enrolled in Leslie County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 30% increase from the 10 Hispanic or Latino students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Leslie County welcomed a total of 1,798 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic or Latino students comprised 0.7% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Leslie County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic or Latino students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four students.

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
Hayes Lewis Elementary School	3.1%	130
Mountain View Elementary School	0.5%	551
Leslie County High School	0.8%	503
W. B. Muncy Elementary School	0.8%	257