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There were 1,769 white students enrolled in Leslie County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 5.2% increase from the 1,682 white 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, white students comprised 98.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Leslie County, Mountain View Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 543 students, making up 98.5% 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
Hayes Lewis Elementary School	96.2%	130
Mountain View Elementary School	98.5%	551
Leslie County High School	98.2%	503
W. B. Muncy Elementary School	98.1%	257
Stinnett Elementary School	99.4%	357