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There were 3,293 white students enrolled in Clay County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.6% decrease from the 3,347 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Clay County welcomed a total of 3,416 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 96.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Clay County, Clay County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 788 students, making up 96.3% 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
Big Creek Elementary School	93.4%	151
Horse Creek Learning Center	95.8%	191
Burning Springs Elementary School	97.9%	337
Clay County Middle School	96.2%	471
Clay County High School	96.3%	818
Goose Rock Elementary School	98.4%	246
Hacker Elementary School	98.6%	288
Manchester Elementary School	94.5%	438
Oneida Elementary School	100%	131
Paces Creek Elementary School	94.8%	345